Ok, I'll bite.
Orion is not an open source product and probably never will be. The fact
that it is free for development purposes and remarkably inexpensive for
deployment shouldn't alter your perception of (a) the ownership and
proprietary nature of the code, or (b) the quality of the product.
MySQL is a quick and dirty database. It has a number of glaring omissions
compared to most grown-up RDBs (transactions and sub-selects to name but
two), and there are better open source products out there (Interbase and
PostgreSQL spring to mind) for scalability, robustness, data integrity,
yada yada yada. Therefore not the ideal companion for a product built to
support a technology that is all of these things.
Use a kiddie database if you must, but please don't inflict it on the rest
of us!
Cheers,
Dan/tastapod
ps. LogicSphere - mmm - can't wait!
At 10:17 18/04/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Why?!?!
>
>I have an idea, why don't IBM and BEA team up and
>release...logicsphere! After all, they're both US companies...
>
>On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote:
>
> > Now this may be a dumb idea, and I am just thinking up brainstorms to
> promote Orion, but it occurred to me that both Mysql and Orion are in
> Sweden. Now I don't know how big Sweden is, but perhaps a meeting
> between the two teams could find ways to mutually promote or bridge the
> two products. Just a thought. Speaking of Sweden, since Rickard O.
> from Jboss lives there, does anyone know of Magnus or Karl have meet him?
> In once sense, but Jboss and Orion are trying to make this EJB technology
> available to more people.
> >
> >
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