sonty,
It has been my experience that open source projects that are successful
usually come about as a result of a developer having a particular itch
that he wants to scratch and not finding any product that he likes
sufficiently or not finding a product that he can afford to license. For
instance i periodically get the bee in my bonnet to come up with a BI
toolset that is easier on the nerves and better integrated and more
intuitive than the ones that are currently out there. Have never
progressed past the wireframe on the UI stage and a few use cases yet
but you never know ...
"an open source PL/SQL API" isn't such a project because it is
hopelessly open ended. Now something like "an open source PL/SQL code
generator for data loads" would be a possibility (yeah, yeah, i know
that is what OWB basically is).
As to the comment from Richard about it possibly not being legal I think
that is not likely. There are open source Matlab libraries as well as
open source Excel macro libraries. There has been, to my knowledge, no
court willing to grant a language vendor control over what can be done
with the language although there are issues with distributing vendor
supplied libraries and of course the usual copyright/patent issues that
we all have everyday.
Another point that I want to dispute is that the community of Oracle
developers is somehow hostile to open source. I think that those of us
that have been doing it for a while (25 years in my case) have also been
keen advocates of open source not least because Oracle IS a not
insignificant expense for our companies and thus we want to be able to
stretch the rest of our budgets as far as we can. Not to mention that
we like to keep our non-oracle chops sharp and working with open source
tools and being part of the community is a great way to do that.
Rob
On 5/23/2011 12:21 PM, Michael Moore wrote:
Sonty,
I'm not really seeing how an Open Source effort could accomplish your
goal.
Mike
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:03 AM, sonty <saurabh.zen...@gmail.com
<mailto:saurabh.zen...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Mentors,
I am willing to initiate a process to create and share some plsql
apis, which can be used as an open source apis like java open source
apis.
As in Open Source, these APIs will be available free to use to
everyone, and, these code will enable us to write more efficient code
way ahead of our deadlines.
These code could be submitted by anyone and worked on by any other
member of the group.
Also, we can have reviews done by senior people in the group so that
these codes become really of some use.
Rob, Mike, David....I request you guys to please guide me to achieve
the same.
Could you please provide me with the feedback for this idea?
Thanks in advance,
Sonty
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