Anyone At All Using Valentina?

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Tue Aug 19 02:08:01 EDT 2003


> Poking around database support in Rev, I spent a bit more time looking
> into Valentina this evening.
>
> Is anyone out there using it? I mean, $200 for a database in an era
> when mySQL -- one of the best databases on the planet -- is free and
> ODBC connectors are also mostly free?
>
> So if someone's using it, I'd be mighty curious to know why. It doesn't
> seem to me to have any advantages at all.
>
> If it was $50 or less, I might license it just for testing locally, but
> I can set up a local instance of mySQL for free, so....
>
> What am I missing here, people?
>
It's the only single user database currently available to us (excluding
ODBC). I've discussed with Tuviah the development of a SQLite external and
think it's on the cards but not yet on the development schedule.

Cheers

Monte




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