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by Balinder Walia
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Steve,
Very good points about the 4D and so true. You are right and I think the
same ways that we have to find the right tools at the right time and solve
the business problems. There are many projects can be done in open source
but there are also situations where 4D fits in what we have to achieve
better than anything open source or even .NET / VB etc. It will be a shame
if I have to program in just other languages apart from 4D because I am
really good at writing stable and good systems in 4D. Many times using 4D in
conjunction with other large databases. However it is difficult to speculate
at this stage what is in there store for us...
Also my $$$ cents worth about Paul's comments:
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Cory,
I was also thinking about MySQL's fate, now that Oracle are buying Sun - who
own MySQL (sort of).
What will Oracle do with MySQL - one of its competitors in the database
market? Will MySQL become marginalized? Will Oracle stop supporting it?
OK, there is open source MySQL but should a business build its system on
open source with no guarantee of support?
Paul SmithTSE International
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I don't think Oracle can kill MySQL as the source is available out there. It
will be just the support where they can make money I suppose. If Oracle stop
supporting it someone will start supporting it.
So
2009/7/1 psmith <psmith@...>
> Cory,
>
> I was also thinking about MySQL's fate, now that Oracle are buying Sun -
> who own MySQL (sort of).
>
> What will Oracle do with MySQL - one of its competitors in the database
> market? Will MySQL become marginalized? Will Oracle stop supporting it?
>
> OK, there is open source MySQL but should a business build its system on
> open source with no guarantee of support?
>
> Paul Smith
>
> TSE International
>
>
> Potential client of mine had an assessment done by some SQL developers
>> who, I believe, were pitching custom development of an application with a
>> web front-end and MySQL back-end. Here are some anti-4D arguments he
>> presented to my potential client.
>>
>> Here are some things I'd like to point out....Client does not need a
>> "robust" SQL engine nor do I envision them needing BLOB arrays. We're
>> talking about 6 users spread over 3 locations. I also realize that some of
>> these "points" are so vague that they are not really arguable without more
>> information.
>>
>
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Very good points about the 4D and so true. You are right and I think the
same ways that we have to find the right tools at the right time and solve
the business problems. There are many projects can be done in open source
but there are also situations where 4D fits in what we have to achieve
better than anything open source or even .NET / VB etc. It will be a shame
if I have to program in just other languages apart from 4D because I am
really good at writing stable and good systems in 4D. Many times using 4D in
conjunction with other large databases. However it is difficult to speculate
at this stage what is in there store for us...
Also my $$$ cents worth about Paul's comments:
-
Cory,
I was also thinking about MySQL's fate, now that Oracle are buying Sun - who
own MySQL (sort of).
What will Oracle do with MySQL - one of its competitors in the database
market? Will MySQL become marginalized? Will Oracle stop supporting it?
OK, there is open source MySQL but should a business build its system on
open source with no guarantee of support?
Paul SmithTSE International
-
I don't think Oracle can kill MySQL as the source is available out there. It
will be just the support where they can make money I suppose. If Oracle stop
supporting it someone will start supporting it.
So
2009/7/1 psmith <psmith@...>
> Cory,
>
> I was also thinking about MySQL's fate, now that Oracle are buying Sun -
> who own MySQL (sort of).
>
> What will Oracle do with MySQL - one of its competitors in the database
> market? Will MySQL become marginalized? Will Oracle stop supporting it?
>
> OK, there is open source MySQL but should a business build its system on
> open source with no guarantee of support?
>
> Paul Smith
>
> TSE International
>
>
> Potential client of mine had an assessment done by some SQL developers
>> who, I believe, were pitching custom development of an application with a
>> web front-end and MySQL back-end. Here are some anti-4D arguments he
>> presented to my potential client.
>>
>> Here are some things I'd like to point out....Client does not need a
>> "robust" SQL engine nor do I envision them needing BLOB arrays. We're
>> talking about 6 users spread over 3 locations. I also realize that some of
>> these "points" are so vague that they are not really arguable without more
>> information.
>>
>
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