Re: Call for an API standard for SQL statements
Date: 23 Oct 2004 22:36:20 -0700
Message-ID: <31f7e57d.0410232136.4d53da64_at_posting.google.com>
"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote:
> I don't think customers *actually* need DBMS independence
I strongly disagree again. The request for database vendor
independence have a strong motivation. Normally it takes many weeks of
expensive formal training to educate a database administraitor. If a
company decide to use lets say SQL Server, of course they just want to
buy software that runs with SQL Server. Using multiple database
vendors will make all their backup and maintainance work much more
difficult. The next customer might have choosen DB2, so a software
> nearly as much as they think they do.
Fredrik Bertilsson
http://butler.sourceforge.net
Received on Sun Oct 24 2004 - 07:36:20 CEST