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From:
Adam Kennedy
Date:
June 19, 2006 06:06
Subject:
Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunk our own self generated FUD.
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20060619130551.6019.qmail@lists.develooper.com
(Johan Vromans) wrote:
> [Quoting Adam Kennedy, on June 18 2006, 02:36, in "Re: Its time we set "]
>> Johan Vromans wrote:
>>> Although SQLite is very nice, I wouldn't call it an industrial
>>> strength database system like Oracle or PostgreSQL. Moreover, often
>>> the customer requires a particular database and she wil not be happy
>>> having to support yet another one.
>> Then might I suggest if there is a requirement on some arbitrary 
>> database dependency for one particular case, that has little to no 
>> relevance at all on having a usable "standard" desktop applications 
>> environment.
> 
> I'm afraid you missed the point where I said that SQLite is not usable
> as a full strenght SQL based RDBMS. It lacks several features that are
> really required for anything but trivial DB applications (yes, that's
> DB in the meaning of Berkeley DB).
> 
> Despite it's popularity, it took MySQL many years to get at that point.

Except that you wouldn't expect a Perl installer to install full copies 
of MySQL server, and Postgres server, and whatever else someone might 
use, which was the context of the thread.

Adam K
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