Well let's see what the full requirement set here is: 1) It MUST be a free software DB system - I am writing a piece of GPL'd free software - making it dependent on a non-free thing is ... well silly 2) It has to be network transparent 3) I must have multiplatform client libs (particularly windows and linux) 4) Normal user types need to be able to install it, create a db and give user-access without any additional training.
Not the easiest set to meet. PG is probably the best if mysql isn't it this time - though that means *I* have to learn it's subtle differences now - oh well, at least I made the choice early on. A.J. On Tuesday 19 September 2006 13:23, Joost van der Sluis wrote: > On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 11:14 +0200, A.J. Venter wrote: > > Okay I did a bit of looking around. > > It seems there are different units for every single mysql version in the > > world - and ipso facto the program compiled with one version of mysql > > won't work with future ones... OUCH. > > Ow, you already sorted that out... > > > Now firebird is a damn big nightmare to get running, oracle is hugely > > overpriced, most of my users despise postgres (as anybody who is NOT a > > DBA but needs a db-backed APPS tends to) ... > > You could use Oracle XE, which is free for single-processor use. (and > some more limitations) > > But why is firebird so difficult to get running? Maybe because it's not > included in most distributions? > > And I don't see the problem with postgres. But I think that I can > consider myself a DBA, so.... l) > > > Is there anything left ? > > Especially when network transparency is SO critical ? > > DB2? ;) > > Joost > > _________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject > archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa) http://www.getopenlab.com | 086 654 2898 (Fax) http://www.silentcoder.co.za | +55 118 162 2079 (Brazil) GPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x27CFFE5A
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