* Zak Greant wrote: > Let me work on the technical MySQL/SAPDB FAQ and provide you with > some real information.
Excellent! Go do that. Should have done that before, shouldn't you? >> > 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? > > I do not think so. But we will be making SAP DB be accessible > via the MySQL clients. This makes things much easier for many > users. Of course. But you will leave the current structure of the SAP DB (the xserver communications layer, the different kernel executables and their current model of one kernel process for each database instance, the DBM server) intact, so that it would technically be possible to ignore MySQL's additions and use the direct interface as usual? >> > 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." > > I do not feel that you can make a claim about work that you are > not currently participating in. Maybe you're right. But that's because of the lack of hard facts about which parts of SAP DB you are going to integrate in what way into MySQL. So, naturally, when I read your statement that SAPDB would be integrated as a storage engine, I assumed it meant that SAPDB would be integrated as a storage engine. Now that we know that a) that's not correct, b) you are not a developer and get more information from the assembled SAP DB users than from your developers, and c) you can still get excited when you hear about all those "Very cool!" things that SAP DB can do today, that should make me look at you much more sympathetically, shouldn't it? -- 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
