[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

Paul Sture paul at sture.ch
Mon Apr 23 10:00:10 EDT 2012


On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:31:30 -0400, JF Mezei wrote:

> (every tech I select tends to get killed just as I get used to it)
 
> I've learned my lesson about prorietary server software. You're are the
> whim of the CEO fo the compamy who ows it. Palmer and successors let go
> of VMS, and now Apple is letting go of of OS-X server.
 
> But if I decide to go PostgreSQL, then it is PostgreSQL which will be
> killed. such is my badluck with choices of technoogy.

<evil grin>

Please stay away from PostgreSQL!

May I suggest you look at Windows?

</evil grin>

:-)

To be honest I think the best way forward is to keep your options open., 
and have a backup plan for each of the products you rely on.  Products 
can not only disappear but veer off in directions you don't want to go.

-- 
Paul Sture



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