Re: Call for an API standard for SQL statements

"Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.comREMOVE> wrote in message news:clf16e$4ui$1_at_news.netins.net...
> >
> > 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.
>
> Both tools & applications that are written to be licensed to many companies
> need database independence. This is not typically because customers require
> such independence, but because one prospective customer uses one database
> and one another.

Just so.

Custom software does not need this independence, though; nor do custom applications need OS independence.

Marshall Received on Sun Oct 24 2004 - 06:58:14 CEST