This might be a reason: In October 2007, SAP assumed full sales and commercial support for MaxDB. MaxDB 7.6 is now closed source <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_source>, available free-of-charge (without support, and with usage restrictions) for use with non-SAP applications.
As quoted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxDB Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Taher Alkhateeb < slidingfilame...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Out of curiosity, why would the client gravitate to an open source solution > sitting on a proprietary database? Especially given that they are > migrating! > > Taher Alkhateeb > On Feb 27, 2015 11:54 AM, "Jacques Le Roux" <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Michael > > > > I have no production experience with MS SQL, but here is a markmail > search > > which might help you > > http://ofbiz.markmail.org/search/?q=%22+MS+SQL%22#query: > > %22%20MS%20SQL%22+page:1+mid:5i2pbzavzwkhc3as+state:results > > > > Jacques > > > > Le 27/02/2015 09:14, Michael Brohl a écrit : > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> we are about to migrate a customer using OFBiz with an older MaxDB > >> (SAPDB) to use MS SQL as the customer's preferred target database. > >> > >> Do you have experience running OFBiz with a MS SQL database in > production? > >> Any incompatibilities, disadvantages or problems? > >> > >> Thanks for sharing you experiences, > >> kind regards, > >> > >> Michael > >> > >> > >> >
