Good Day Edson! On May 31, 2003 05:59, Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter wrote: > If you wish to make current community happy:
We do wish to make the current community happy. However, we also wish to be happy ourselves. :) > - maintain GPL+LGPL licenses as is (GPL for kernel and so on, LGPL for > interfaces - JDBC, ODBC, Perl, Python and so on); I am working on a compromise for this now. I am fairly sure that it will not make everyone happy, but it should address some of the concerns that we have. Personally, I like to see greater freedom between the Free Software and Open Source communities and am concerned that the GPL client licensing punishes people who choose to share their source. I will work up a public draft as soon as I can so that we can get feedback from the affected users. > - second, don't change any existing code related to SQL syntax (excetp > additions: they will be welcome); Ok. Their may be changes - however, we also want to keep things as unchanged as possible for the short term integration. It looks like MySQL and SAP DB are relatively compatible - especially if MySQL is run in ANSI compatibility mode. We will need to make sure that we have clearly identified the areas of incompatibility before we make any decisions. > - don't touch transactional processing. We loved sapdb way to do the work > with transactions. I've servers running 24x7 and even in completely > failure, I never lost no one field data... I don't imagine that we would want to or need to. > - don't put MySQL in the name of database. This must change. We are now the party that is responsible for the technology. > I'm not starting a fight against MySQL, is just a fact the several of us > has take months to explain way SapDB should be used over other databases, > like MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, and even MySQL. The first of tree are > obvious: they are paid (too much paid). The other two aren't to obvious, > and we had more trouble here identifying theirs "why or why not" > tecnically. I will prepare a document that talks about the advantages and disadvantages of the partnership that can be used to help advocate the adoption or continued use of the MySQL/SAP DB technology in a corporate setting. Hopefully this will help ensure that you have less trouble using the product in your work setting. > Thanks for this space to you hear the community (something that Sap don't > made BEFORE their decision). No problem! If we had not listened to our own community, then we would not have gotten to where we are today. Thanks for the feedback! Also, it is rather nice to be working with the SAP DB community. As a group, you seem to be committed to the database and are willing and able to express your wants and concerns. This makes it much easier for everyone who is involved to try and solve problems. --zak _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
