[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/23/2012 10:00 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
> 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.

It helps quite a bit just by going open source.

If there is interest in staying the old course after a
change in course, then the code can be forked.

Arne