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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-02-25 kl. 00:29, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
> On 2/24/2023 5:33 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> I would not say "loads of bollocks".
>> I'm sure anyone understand that it meant "a license with no cost"...
> 
> I did not even notice it.
> 
> I just read "license-fee-free" instead of "license-free".
> 
>> And we all know that OSS normaly comes with some kind of license.
> 
> And PostgreSQL comes under its own license - a permissive
> license similar to BSD and MIT licenses.
> 
>> Not all applications using Rdb are using SQLMOD.
> 
> Some use embedded SQL.
> 
> Some use JDBC.
> 
> Maybe there are even some that are using the SQL Services
> API.

Any Windows application using ODBC is normally using SQL/Services.

We have a couple of VB6/ODBC applicatiuons that are now evaluated
for replacement. Will probably be a web frontend and Python backend
connected through WASD.



> 
> Arne
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