On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 09:14 -0700, Chris Travers wrote: > Just as a note here:
> > Let me be real blunt. I quit if we support MySQL. I have zero desire to > > go down that path (or Oracle or otherwise). The only way I would > > consider it, would be if there was a valid technological reason to > > reconsider PostgreSQL as our platform. MySQL does not equate and neither > > does Oracle. People running LedgerSMB don't need RAC :) > > Just to be equally blunt: your opinion is not the only voice on the > subject and if we generally disagreed with the notion then you would > no doubt quit ;-) :P > But we don't disagree. The fact is that every > member of the core team backed that decision its merits. This is and > was a core committee decision based on concensus, not based on > worrying about whether or not CMD would be a part of the project. Well of course not. CMD isn't relevant to this anyway. > My main point is that the decision to support PostgreSQL only is a > decision supported by every core committee member and not something > which is based on one company's interest in the project. Instead it > is based on the merits of the choice based largely on the criteria I Did I miss something? Who was making a statement that it is on one companies best interest? We (as you already pointed out) picked PostgreSQL because it is the best solution. > If someone wanted to port to Oracle, MS SQL, etc. I would be more than > happy to provide high-level pointers. However, I would not expect to > provide a great deal of time and effort, and I would not expect it to > be something that would make it into the community distribution. > Sure, as I mentioned, I would applaud any effort to do that it just isn't something I am interested in having LedgerSMB proper do. > > > > Actually I don't agree with this. People that are going to really want > > to run LSMB are already running FireFox. > > For now. However, I expect the appeal to become broader as the > software gets better. > Yep, right around the time Firefox has 45% of the market :P Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
