RE: [SQL-Ledger-users] evaluation of sql-ledger

[Marco De L. <del...@mt...>]

Someone get me of this mailing list please!!!


Thank you,

Marco
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From: sql...@li...
[mailto:sql...@li...]On Behalf Of Kim C.
Callis
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 4:25 AM
To: sql...@li...
Subject: Re: [SQL-Ledger-users] evaluation of sql-ledger

"Ing. Antonio A. Gallardo" wrote:

>
>
> Hi Craig!
>
> Please explain why you are creating a terminal frontend to SQL-Ledger.
> I think that Web based Aplications is the new wave of office products.
> Let see at MS .net project for example.
>
> If you want, you can do anything with SQL-Ledger source. But the goal
> to archive is to create a account application Web-based.
>
> PHP is great, and maybe he will save us many problems about UI. Please
> Dieter explain us why you dont choose PHP in the develop of
> SQL-Ledger.
>
> I think that MySQL is a low-end DBMS. PostgreSQL is more powerfull and
> we will approach the powerful features of PostgreSQL. Dieter again,
> please answer us what you think about that.
>
> I will be glad to open a discussion about the Roadmap of SQL-Ledger to
> all the users.
>

I am curious about two of your above statements... First off, I think
that it is applaudable that Craig is attempting to create a curses
interface to SQL-Ledger. An application should be designed in such a way
that allows it to be modified to meet the needs of any end user. Take an
application like Quickbooks (since we are on an accounting path here!).
This is a nice application for some, but by no means does it really meet
the needs of all. Unfortunately, there is no real quick and easy way to
modify it to be useful. I think Craig gave a very valid explaination of
why he is doing such a modification.

Secondly, I was curious to hear about how you qualify your view of MySQL
being a "low -end" DBMS. The lacking feature of MySQL at one time was
handling transactions. Of course that was prior to 3.23, because that
requirement has been put in to production. From a benchmark perspective,
MySQL is in fact faster than PostgreSQL, by a significant margin. Of
course this was due to a transaction mechanism which easily made MySQL
faster. Nevertheless, although I am by no leaps and bounds a MySQL
evangelist, I will say that MySQL does a nice job of holding it's own.