Re: [GENERAL] SAP DB: The unsung Open Source DB

2003-07-24 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On 24 Jul 2003 at 10:00, Tom Lane wrote: > Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There's a multi-year plan to "bring the code bases closer together" which > > sounds like one of those big projects that always make me nervous. > > Just between us chickens, I hope they do spend multiple m

Re: [GENERAL] SAP DB: The unsung Open Source DB

2003-07-24 Thread Vernon Smith
Good to learn PG, in fact, is faster than SAP DB. But how the figure 2.487 comes up? A single select statement or something else? - Original Message - DATE: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:00:30 From: Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mike Mascari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] SAP DB: The unsung Open Source DB

2003-07-24 Thread Vernon Smith
The following statements is based on your own experience or not? >That's fine, but my understanding of SAP DB's failure to attract a large >community was that: > - it had a lot of competition (MySQL/PG/Firebird...) It is true that there are quite some open source free DBs out there. They, how

Re: [GENERAL] SAP DB: The unsung Open Source DB

2003-07-24 Thread Dennis Gearon
r list ;-) Cheers, Ned - Original Message - From: "Richard Huxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ned Lilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 6:22 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] SAP DB: The unsung Open Source DB On Thursday

Re: [GENERAL] SAP DB: The unsung Open Source DB

2003-07-24 Thread Dennis Gearon
Couldn't agree more: Just between us chickens, I hope they do spend multiple man-years trying to merge those two codebases. It'll keep them distracted from accomplishing anything useful . Tom Lane wrote: Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: There's a multi-year plan to "bring the code ba

Re: [GENERAL] SAP DB: The unsung Open Source DB

2003-07-24 Thread Dennis Gearon
I've never seen this work before. the only version of this scenario that works, is to buy the competitor, and learn their code, put the competitor out of business, and force the competitor's company to use a half ass bridge version for one rev of a vision, then the next version force them to your s