[REBOL] Antwort: Command question Re:(2)
From: news:ted:husted at: 4-Oct-2000 7:02
> Core to support at least 1 free DB, or create one yourselves! I
Elan's book < www.reboltech.com > includes a DBMS written entirely in
REBOL.
People have also mentioned connnecting to MySQL via /COMMAND and ODBC,
but that just seems like such a kludge.
Another interesting idea has been to connect to MySQL via TCP. No one
wanted to work on that before because of /COMMAND. But now that it
seems /COMMAND will add a licensing fee to every application
distributed using it, people might be more interested in alternatives
now.
It's not clear to me whether /COMMAND is using a driver format, like
DBI or JDBC. If so, it would be nice if there were a free version of
/COMMAND that supported free databases. So you could start with
something like Elan's DBMS for the free version, and then offer
licensed upgrades to Oracle or OBDC backends.
The industry is very much in a try-before-you-buy mode right now, and
I'm not sure how trial versions would work with /COMMAND's licensing
structure.
-Ted.
