A couple reasons. Valentina is a lot easier to setup and use. All you need are the externals. With MySQL you have to have the MySQL server running in order to connect to your database, which means that users of your software must install and administer the MySQL server on their network servers. This server does not run on all platforms (Mac OS X and some versions of Windows). So you couldn't create a standalone database on a Mac OS 9 machine. It just won't work.
Also mySQL costs big bucks if you plan to use it commercially. You have to pay license fees for every copy of software sold. Valentina is one flat cost. I'm not saying MySQL is bad. It's an awesome database, and my company will most likely use it for a networkable version of our software. But Valentina definitely has its strengths. Chris Sheffield --- Dan Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Poking around database support in Rev, I spent a bit > more time looking > into Valentina this evening. > > Is anyone out there using it? I mean, $200 for a > database in an era > when mySQL -- one of the best databases on the > planet -- is free and > ODBC connectors are also mostly free? > > So if someone's using it, I'd be mighty curious to > know why. It doesn't > seem to me to have any advantages at all. > > If it was $50 or less, I might license it just for > testing locally, but > I can set up a local instance of mySQL for free, > so.... > > What am I missing here, people? > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Dan Shafer, Revolutionary > Author of forthcoming 3-book set, > "Revolution: Programming at the Speed of Thought" > http://www.revolutionpros.com for More Info > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ===== Chris Sheffield Read Naturally www.readnaturally.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
