Re: Call for an API standard for SQL statements
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:12:04 GMT
Message-ID: <U9xed.303652$D%.57475_at_attbi_s51>
"Fredrik Bertilsson" <fredrik_bertilsson_at_passagen.se> wrote in message news:31f7e57d.0410222120.66d13df_at_posting.google.com...
> alfredo_at_ncs.es (Alfredo Novoa) wrote:
> > >Everyone talks about this feature, but how often does a real business app
> > >change databases? Pretty much never.
> >
> > I agree, the programming languages change a lot more often than the
> > DBMSs. I have seen a project with six or seven programming language
> > changes but it always used Oracle.
>
> I strongly disagree. I have seen many customer request for database
> vendor indepent applications. Most major ERP vendors have multiple
> database vendor support. Only if you make custom tailored
> applications, you can accept being tied to one database vendor.
I don't think there's necessarily any real disagreement here.
- Many customers ask for things they won't actually use.
- ERP vendors fall in to the category of ISV that in another post I mentioned as being the one category of entity that can actually use DBMS independence because they deploy on many sites with many different customers DBMSs.
I don't think customers *actually* need DBMS independence nearly as much as they think they do.
Marshall Received on Sat Oct 23 2004 - 20:12:04 CEST