> > Bullshit. There are plenty of cross-platform RDBMSes that are not > > implemented in this grotesque proprietary abomination that Java is. > > My comment, or Sun's decision ?
Sun's decision. Compulsive Javamania. There are bulkloads of programming languages and frameworks that allow cross-platform application development way better than Java will ever do. > How many of those cross-platform RDBMs were : > > - available in 2004 (when the decision was made to upgrade the OOo1 > Base iteration to something new) ? Postgres (back then without SQL) version 1 was released in 1989. And before Postgres there was Ingres from the same developers. That's where the name comes from, after all. > - didn't require masses of developer investment time and resources to > integrate into the codebase ? The SDBC driver was already there, developed by third-parties. > - ran on OSX, Windows and Linux ? PostgreSQL runs on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL#Platforms It's even *shipped* with the default installation of MacOS X Server. > - weren't Java based ? PostgreSQL isn't. If you're a completely obsessive Java fetishist, you *can* use PL/Java for server-side application logic though. > - could be made to run in a single file and be portable across various > OSes ? I don't see a reason for the "single file" requirement. It's installed separately anyway. Sincerely, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
