* Zak Greant wrote: > Discarding the value of the SAP name would be as foolish as > throwing the database itself away! We are working with SAP to > ensure that people know the heritage of the database.
Well, the way it looks to me, the database _is_ being thrown away, so why not go all the way? > Why should we rename it? My feelings on this are that we are the > database company in this partnership - all of our energies are > focused on developing and supporting databases. The future > success (or possible failure) of the SAP DB technology will rest > on our shoulders rather than SAPs - it should have our brand > attached most strongly to it. I won't say anything about the likelihood of "future success". But there's one thing that I don't remember having been said here yet. We're all worried that the reputation of SAP DB will deteriorate as soon as the word "MySQL" appears within a hundred meters of it. Could it be that MySQL AB is expecting that the name "SAP DB" will improve MySQL's reputation? > Also, we are responsible - as a business, to our community, in a > legally binding sense - for the SAP DB technology now. We can't > keep calling it SAP *anything*. Well, since you're apparently going to eviscerate the codebase anyway, that's probably for the best. That way, we can keep using -- and promoting -- the un-rebranded releases without having to spend too much time explaining "yes, it's called MySQL now, and it's worth exactly the same as MySQL, but this is from before that -- no, no, that doesn't mean it's old and obsolete...". > Also, please consider this from another point of view. While SAP > DB is a has good brand value and a long heritage, it has > experienced low levels of adoption in the community. That's not the fault of the software, but of SAP, who haven't done anything to attract attention to the software. > The association of the technology with MySQL will introduce > millions of users to the database via an interface that they > know and understand. Let me get this straight: "via an interface that they know and understand"? You're not actually planning on removing the current management tools and substituting your far inferior mysql frontend, are you? > The potential for increasing the usage levels of SAP DB is quite > tremendous. Sorry, but I think you're missing the point. We don't like the database just because it's called "SAP DB". We like it because it is good. Very good, indeed. And it appears that there'll be not much left of that, once you are done with your "integration." -- Christian Ullrich Registrierter Linux-User #125183 "Remember: 'I am a person. I have a right to the ball.'" _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
