Chuck wrote:
I just can't believe that ODBC
connectivity to the premiere database in the world still doesn't work at
this point. IMO that should have been a show stopper preventing Base
from being included in the official release.
Not certain what you mean by "premiere", but depending on whose numbers
you believe, it does not have the leading market share (what ever that
means).
http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/marketshare/
Number one request for improved support appears to be MS Access support.
I mean by around 100 to 1. The primary audience does not use Oracle,
even if Oracle is a nice product.
More people request PostGres support than Oracle support.
I have only seen a few Oracle requests. The primary advantage to Oracle
is that it works well in what I would term HUGE environments with lots
of money available for the project. Most of the database projects that I
have seen, do not use Oracle unless the company has a license argreement
with Oracle and then we require dedicated DBAs, etc... No argument that
it is one awesome product, but I recomend against it for most projects
on which I work (over kill and it would usually take most of the budget
just or Oracle).
I know that none of this lessens your pain, but it might explain the
current priorities.
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Andrew Pitonyak
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