On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 22:56, Zak Greant wrote: > 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.
I think you are missing our point of view. While you are ABSOLUTELY correct that SAP-DB is not being adopted en masse by the Free Software Community. You are missing the point that many Enterprise customers (including Small/Medium Enterprises) don't want to gamble on Free Software (the concept) just yet, but when they hear they can get a SAP product (SAP-DB) at no cost, it makes the software using it very credible out of the box. Throwing around the MySQL name frankly has no effect on them. While I think this move will make SAP-DB more accepted in by the Free Software Community, I don't think it necessarily does much for the credibility of the product. It might even harm it. That said the MySQL name is getting better in Enterprise markets (mainly for its speed), I think it was named as best database product in eWeek or something similar. At this point I think move is making anyone not currently entrenched in SAP-DB step back and watch how the story unfolds before committing to it. Which is a shame. :( -- Derek Neighbors GNU Enterprise http://www.gnuenterprise.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=dneighbo
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