Kevin,
The problem I have run into is that $2k may be closer to $0 than to $10 or
$20k mathematically, but... people at many companies say "well if we have
to pay for it... why not just buy oracle and be done with it?" f.e. the
hastle of going through paperwork at large companies is often more of a
big deal than the actual money. In my position, it's easy to argue "It's
almost as good, and it's _free_!" than to say "Well it's almost as good..
and somewhat cheaper." This is especially so if you work for a place that
already has unlimited licence for MS-SQL or Oracle, where adding one of
those costs $0, and adding MaxDB would cost $2000. (Which includes almost
any place with SAP ERP installed, btw.)
Thank you,
Noah Silva
Atofina IS&T - Sr. Programmer Analyst
(215) 419 - 7916
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01/23/2004 02:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject: RE: Support for older releases (was: really need long varchar
sea rch
function ...)
DAMN IT!
This was NOT supposed to be a discussion about 7.5, this WAS supposed to
be
a REQUEST for functions in the database that would allow operations (like
searching) in Long Varchar fields.
AND for my $0.02 ... when MySQL gets a stable version of 7.5.x out I will
GLADLY move to it. BUT the issues for 7.4.x haven't even leveled out yet
so
I am running 7.3 until the water is a little less choppy.
$2k for a DB that runs on all platforms without CALs, Multiplexing, Per
processor or any of that other licensing garbage the others put you
through
... the price is peanuts!
-----Original Message-----
From: Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter
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Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 12:25 PM
To: MaxDB
Subject: Re: Support for older releases (was: really need long varchar
search function ...)
Look you all, the idea is forcing all to buy licences from MySQL. Just
drop out this idea.
People want buy real support for the version they want to run. I'll
never upgrade to instable 7.5 version (event with all the known problems
7.4 has today). 7.5 (AFAIK) hasn't a changes list avaliable to us.
About licences nobody need to buy: just help us to maintain the sapforge
project in the air. We want to keep LGPL versions of JDBC, ODBC and so
on, so you don't need to pay for it.
But we encourages you to buy support - real support for the SapDB/MaxDB
database. Buying that support will help to evolute the code with all
whishes (at least, if MySQL ear us - the users, because until now, SapDB
received only improvents where Sap had interest: nothing more just,
since they where sponsors. But now, the scenario has changed).
Just my 2 cents.
Edson Richter
PS: I love SapDB... IMHO, it's most amazing database avaliable in open
source today.
Em Sex, 2004-01-23 �s 08:33, Dittmar, Daniel escreveu:
> > anymore, but it
> > seems good idea if in future there could be longer support cycles,
> > especially until the latest release is mature enough to use
> > it on production
> > systems.
>
> We generally do support older releases for a long time. But MySQL AB is
starting to build a business around MaxDB, and this would be more
difficult
if there is still the competition of SAP DB, which places less
restrictions
on redistribution.
>
> Daiel Dittmar
>
> --
> Daniel Dittmar
> SAP Labs Berlin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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