Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base questions

> > Bullshit. There are plenty of cross-platform RDBMSes that are not
> > implemented in this grotesque proprietary abomination that Java is.
>
> My comment, or Sun's decision ?

Sun's decision. Compulsive Javamania.

There are bulkloads of programming languages and frameworks that allow
cross-platform application development way better than Java will ever
do.

> How many of those cross-platform RDBMs were :
>
> - available in 2004 (when the decision was made to upgrade the OOo1
> Base iteration to something new) ?

Postgres (back then without SQL) version 1 was released in 1989.

And before Postgres there was Ingres from the same developers. That's
where the name comes from, after all.
 
> - didn't require masses of developer investment time and resources to
> integrate into the codebase ?

The SDBC driver was already there, developed by third-parties.
 
> - ran on OSX, Windows and Linux ?

PostgreSQL runs on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL#Platforms

It's even *shipped* with the default installation of MacOS X Server.
 
> - weren't Java based ?

PostgreSQL isn't.

If you're a completely obsessive Java fetishist, you *can* use PL/Java
for server-side application logic though.

> - could be made to run in a single file and be portable across various
> OSes ?

I don't see a reason for the "single file" requirement.

It's installed separately anyway.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

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