Jake Holt wrote: > U2 has an easy learning curve ..? What? MV is a > completely foreign concept to most people and I'd > wager a large number of DBAs. There is no conceivable > way that installing U2, setting up a database, > developing an application and presenting it using a > technology that's not a dinosaur can be considering > easy in comparison to the majority of other databases > out there.
We need to separate DBMS administration from programming against a database. The average developer out there doesn't need to install or administer the MySQL environments they use. They use CPanel to create the database/account with a couple browser clicks, they use CREATE TABLE statements for creating files, then they use functions like db.setFile(table,field,data) to save data. They don't deal with backups, spooler, user processes, save-lists, or any of the other DBMS subsystems that we employ as MV professionals. The U2 platform can also be abstracted in this way for use by casual developers. "We" collectively simply don't think like that. The licensing model doesn't lead in that direction. This isn't a technical or platform limitation, it's how we employ what we have - it's just a mindset. Now as to the U2 learning curve for someone oriented toward DBMS administration. I'll agree that Universe and Unidata are more unapproachable than any DBMS I know, MV or otherwise (though jBase is a bear too). For this reason I consider myself a complete noob when it comes to U2 administration, and I have simply accepted that this is one of those things that I will never master in my lifetime. I have helped a lot of U2 sites to get more out of their platform and I plan to deploy U2 for some projects, but I'm afraid my over 25 years of Pick experience is useless real professional management of these systems, and I will still need to hire competent people when my projects go production. To keep this anecdote in context - I function perfectly well as a developer who is (semi) oblivious to the DBMS, and this is the way most developers in the web world use their databases of choice as well. T _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
