Re: Call for an API standard for SQL statements

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
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.

  1. Many customers ask for things they won't actually use.
  2. 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

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