Downey, Shawn wrote:
I am trying to overcome the attitude of:
"If SQLite is as good as you say, then why is it free?"
and
"If anyone can see the source code, then won't we be venerable to
hackers?"
Hi, I hope I may be of assistance in this area. I own my own company and
we use exclusively open source stuff for ourselves and clients. We went
thought those questions too. What you must have them understand is that
just because its open source and free, doesn't mean its of low quality.
You see open source projects, ones like SQLite have many people working
on them and looking the source over. As a result of this you get a high
quality yet, free project. The more people that look at the source and
stuff, the more of a bug free/exploit free product you end up with. The
bugs that do exist also tend to be discovered quickly and fixed rather
quickly. Of course there is always encryption if you're that
worried. Also if SQLite worked for you guys before then why change? As
some else mentioned, MS SQL is a full rdbms and SQLite is embedded. On a
more opinion side of things I condemn anything made by MS, by default
anyhow. Oh, as far as vulnerability to hackers goes, that depends on how
well the project is run, if they fix bugs quickly and such then you need
not be to worried. Also depends on how its built, do they build it in a
manner that doesn't present vulnerabilities. I would recommend
encryption though if you're really worried.
