The following statements is based on your own experience or not?
>That's fine, but my understanding of SAP DB's failure to attract a large >community was that: > - it had a lot of competition (MySQL/PG/Firebird...) It is true that there are quite some open source free DBs out there. They, however, are for different people, or types of applications. If you are a PG guy, you may not be too keen on MySQL. > - it was tricky to compile/install What I know is the opposite. SAP DB is very easy to install, at least on Windows. > - the codebase was far from easy to get to grips with Since I don't know this, I won't say anything about it. ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
