What is Holding SAP-DB Back?

Posted by Cliff on Monday August 5, 2002 @01:30AM from the yet-another-RDBMS-question dept.

Derek Neighbors queries: "The current story about MySQL 4.0 has erupted into a Postgres vs. MySQL debate. We at GNU Enterprise, who have used about all Free and Propietary databases, would like to know why exactly people arent using SAP-DB? It clearly is on par with Oracle, is GPL and frankly has an awesome support team in SAP AG. There was a PG vs SAP-DB recently. Someone else mentioned that you can get CDROMs for free. So again the question is 'What exactly is hindering a wider acceptance of SAP-DB in Free/Open Software projects?'"

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Its the licence stupid. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-08-05 02:10 · Score: -1, Flamebait

It uses that GPL licence, whereas PostgreSQL uses a far eaiser to understand BSD style license.

The GNUenterprise people should spend their time producing the accounting system (this is what, your 3rd year of existance w/o any accounting code?) rather than worrying about SAP's acceptance.