SAP bought adabas database and renamed it to SAP DB.
R/3, the SAP product run on top of many databases such as SAP DB, informix, Oracle, sybase etc...
SAP try to push Microsoft SQL server as *the database* to use since Oracle is selling competing products to SAP R/3 in the finance domain. SQL Server is free now with SAP R/3 and SAP R/3 on Oracle would cost you a fortune.
I hope that this news is true and that SAP DB (adabas) will be GPLed as it is a powerful DB. (it runs R/3 for God sake!).
The 100meg license limit of Adabas on Staroffice is very annoying as well. A GPLed version would be the end of this limit !
Such announce is never gratuitous in the open source software world.
This kind of event has to be triggered...Let me think...Ho yes, all the momentum around gnome this past week must be the reason why Troll Tech has decided to release QT under the GPL. They were afraid to lose interest against the duo Gnome/GTK with all the declarations made by Sun, IBM etc.
Ho well, the past has shown that releasing a software under the GPL is godd to compete. I would love companies to release more software under GPL not because of the pressure or competition but because it really good indeed.
Congratulation to TrollTech anyway. We will miss the KDE/Gnome troll.
As stated in the MySQL RDBMS FAQ, implementing commit/rollback feature would require a complete rewrite of the DB engine. This would as well slow down a lot the speed of this RDBMS ( this would also permit to compare more fairly the speed between various RDBMSs). Mysql would be so different that only the name would stay inchanged. MySQL is probably a very bad implementation of the RDBMS concept but as long as it does the job most people expect from it (a lot of read access, a few writes to the DB), there's no problem. If you try to put a OLTP like SAP on top of it, prepare to cry...
>In a newsmagazine survey taken earlier this >year, 81 percent of Americans said they believed >the Net was responsible for the Columbine >massacre
You have to be careful about what tell surveys. Depending on how the question was asked, you will get very different answers around the same idea.
If you ask "Do you thing that the american punishing attack against attack was necessary ?" or "Do you think it was necessary to stop terrorism by attacking Kadafi", it is likely that you will get very different answers.
Most people know that the Net is not responsible for all the problems. You have to be vey critical about surveys especially when done just after a tragic event.
If you have a look at http://www.matroxusers.com you will see that the production of the G400 stop in Q2 in profit of the G450 and G800 which are far more better.
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SAP bought adabas database and renamed it to SAP DB. R/3, the SAP product run on top of many databases such as SAP DB, informix, Oracle, sybase etc... SAP try to push Microsoft SQL server as *the database* to use since Oracle is selling competing products to SAP R/3 in the finance domain. SQL Server is free now with SAP R/3 and SAP R/3 on Oracle would cost you a fortune. I hope that this news is true and that SAP DB (adabas) will be GPLed as it is a powerful DB. (it runs R/3 for God sake!). The 100meg license limit of Adabas on Staroffice is very annoying as well. A GPLed version would be the end of this limit !
Why moderates the previous post to 0 ?? Even Slashdot has given up publishing a WAP service because of the limitations of WAP !!
Such announce is never gratuitous in the open source software world. This kind of event has to be triggered...Let me think...Ho yes, all the momentum around gnome this past week must be the reason why Troll Tech has decided to release QT under the GPL. They were afraid to lose interest against the duo Gnome/GTK with all the declarations made by Sun, IBM etc. Ho well, the past has shown that releasing a software under the GPL is godd to compete. I would love companies to release more software under GPL not because of the pressure or competition but because it really good indeed. Congratulation to TrollTech anyway. We will miss the KDE/Gnome troll.
As stated in the MySQL RDBMS FAQ, implementing commit/rollback feature would require a complete rewrite of the DB engine. This would as well slow down a lot the speed of this RDBMS ( this would also permit to compare more fairly the speed between various RDBMSs). Mysql would be so different that only the name would stay inchanged. MySQL is probably a very bad implementation of the RDBMS concept but as long as it does the job most people expect from it (a lot of read access, a few writes to the DB), there's no problem. If you try to put a OLTP like SAP on top of it, prepare to cry...
Get a life ...
>In a newsmagazine survey taken earlier this
>year, 81 percent of Americans said they believed
>the Net was responsible for the Columbine
>massacre
You have to be careful about what tell surveys.
Depending on how the question was asked, you will get very different answers around the same idea.
If you ask "Do you thing that the american punishing attack against attack was necessary ?" or "Do you think it was necessary to stop terrorism by attacking Kadafi", it is likely that you will get very different answers.
Most people know that the Net is not responsible for all the problems. You have to be vey critical about surveys especially when done just after a tragic event.
If you have a look at http://www.matroxusers.com you will see that the production of the G400 stop in Q2 in profit of the G450 and G800 which are far more better.