Re: [Clockwork-developers] Architecture of job scheduler

[Joel L. <jo...@lo...>]

+- On Friday (1/11/2002 14:18) Shawn McMahon <smc...@ei...> Wrote-
| I think we have to do a free one if we do one at all, because we're a
| free project.  We're cutting our own throats if the scheduler is free
| but you have to pay Oracle $100k if you want to use it.  I agree that we
| can't support every database, at least not in the beginning.

I agree. Regardless of how many database platforms we support, at least
one of them should be free.

One reason I think we should support multiple platforms is that I can see
a user who decides not to use our product, because he's got dozens of
Oracle servers and could easily accomodate another couple of databases
on them, but we would require him to run MySQL, or Sybase, or something else.

That's something that always irritated me about Bugzilla. It's a great
tool, but you can only use MySQL. They even wrote the thing in Perl and
use DBI, so you'd think you could use any platform, but they then went
and used features specific to MySQL (like enum data types and some other
stuff).

I think people are about as picky about their favorite database platform
as they are about their favorite UNIX. So why make a program that runs on
anyone's favorite UNIX, but only one database?

-- 
Joel