Re: [SL] Trend analysis - additional development

[Luke <sl...@li...>]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, la...@cl... wrote:

> I don't think I was trying to define what the role of a DBA or business
> anaylst should be as I do believe in cross training. I think I named a
> legitimate reason why going to a postgres only solution isn't the greatest

It is a "legitimate reason"--I was not claiming otherwise.  However, imo 
it is a legitimate reason for the minority of potential users, not the 
majority.

Look at Quickbooks, for example: their database is completely proprietary 
from a user prospective.  Any organization using that, has *no* outside 
access to the database, DBA or no DBA, and how many substantial 
organizations are using it?  Enough to keep Intuit in business, bad 
practices and all.

> idea for the open source except for Commad Prompt. Hey, it's their open
> source and they are free to take LSMB to Command Prompt Financial. I stand
> netural between SL an LSMB but I sure hope that no one is buying
> statements that SL is terrible because it does not use relationships or
> referential integrity constraints

Although....

> million dollor financial system that is just that and works very well for
> its clients. Nonetheless, you know the bottom line is that the software
> has to work--and that's SL for now.

I don't think that this point is particularly in dispute.

What is, is that LSMB, with its deep integration and exclusivity with 
PostGreSQL, is either a potentially good, or potentially bad, option for 
the future, if they get it to a widely usable and stable setup.

I maintain, taking QuickBooks as an example, that as long as the financial 
side is properly functional, and the UI suits the needs of the 
organization, the backend database is not something that the vast (and I 
do mean vast) majority of potential users is going to care about.  Keep in 
mind its intended market--it's right there in the name: small to medium 
businesses.  We aren't talking about huge companies with seas of financial 
analysts, DBAs, reports departments, and the like.  We are probably 
talking about companies with one to a thousand employees.

Luke