databases [was: Re: Ruby Active Record]

[Russ McBride]

Yeah, it seems crazy these days to actually have to *pay* for a  
database.  But there are reasons why people still make decisions that  
allow Larry Ellison to by another small island in the Caribbean (and  
why people would pay $$ for FrontBase).  We use it as an excellent  
fit for our WebObjects applications.  And in the past MySQL has been  
quite problematic for any kind of applications that require a lot of  
updating rather than lots of simple reads (as you get in web apps).   
FrontBase is also completely SQL92 compliant which is rare.

Anyway, I don't want to get into the usual database wars here, nor is  
it the place.  I've been happy with FrontBase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and  
others.  It was, though, quite nice to see a fairly small db vendor  
provide runrev support.

Cheers,


Russ McBride
Programmer/Analyst
The Scholar's Workstation
University of California at Berkeley
510-643-6853


On Apr 19, 2006, at 11:17 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> Thanks, Ken. FOund it. But at those prices, I think I"ll stay far,  
> far away.
> Yikes.
>
>
> On 4/19/06, Ken Ray <kray at sonsothunder.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/20/06 12:50 AM, "Dan Shafer" <revolutionary.dan at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't see any support there for Revolution. Is it hiding?
>>
>> Click the Downloads link in the toolbar, then scroll down....
>>
>>
>>
>>
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