[Info-vax] Migrating from Rdb to Open Source Postgres

Jan-Erik Söderholm jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com
Fri Feb 24 17:33:30 EST 2023


Den 2023-02-24 kl. 22:13, skrev Simon Clubley:
> On 2023-02-24, Denys Beauchemin <denysftr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Over the last several years, Postgres has acquired a solid reputation as a
>> dependable, mission-critical RDBMS.  One of its benefit is that it?s Open
>> Source, ie, license free.  You can install it on as many servers as you want,
>> with any number of CPUs, for any number of users, no charge.
>>
> 
> Well, that's a load of bollocks.
> 
> Open Source software is not the same thing as licence-free software
> and the vast majority of it _is_ released under a licence.
> 
> I hope you have more respect for Open Source software elsewhere than
> that if you use any of it in your own software.
> 
> Simon.
> 

I would not say "loads of bollocks".
I'm sure anyone understand that it meant "a license with no cost"...
And we all know that OSS normaly comes with some kind of license.

Anyway...

Not all applications using Rdb are using SQLMOD.





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