[REBOL] Re: What's Up Rebol?
From: chris:starforge at: 6-Mar-2002 21:30
On 06-Mar-02, Petr Krenzelok wrote:
> Heh, then you choosed a bad aproach for clarification? :-) I am able to
> produce database connection in 1 minute and generate output in another
> ten.
They also know I can do the same in Perl and Java, it's hardly complicated.
> You have to show her Rebol's advantage. Are you joking here or
> what? You do have enought money for Oracle license, while you can't pay
> stupid 350 USD for Rebol/Command? Come on. :-) I know it can be a
> problem sometimes, but you just have to try fight your way. What about
> /Pro version and wrapping around some library?
I work for a UK university, if you've ever done the same you will know that
is explanation enough ;) If not, well we have a university site license for
Oracle 8, they need it for the student databases so I can piggyback on the
department's system for free. The project I needed the database for wasn't
critical: it's a system to let us keep track of distance learning courses
and the students on the courses that we teach for a few departments and
sell to industry. At present this is done using a collection of squares
of compressed vegetable matter with graphite or ink markings, but some
recent mistakes by some of the secretaries had shown the system had problems.
You think I can somehow convince my boss, at a university, for a non-critical
project, when there are already a handful of lanugages available that I can
use as well (one of which I wrote a course on), that spending $350 Is a good
idea? We had to go through enough red tape to get the copies of Flash I
needed for developing material in one of the courses, and ARM were paying for
that!
BTW, please don't even suggest MySQL and the mysql-protocol - you should
have seen the veins on the side of the neck of one of our sysadmins when I
so much as mentioned mysql... ;)
Chris
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