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  • Alternatives (Score:3, Interesting)

    by djberg96 (2603) on 2002.08.05 21:05 (#11436) Journal
    I saw sap-db [sapdb.org] for the first time today, and it looks interesting. Thought I'd pass it along. It may have what you want.

    • Re:Alternatives (Score:2, Informative)

      by jjohn (22)

      First, thank you for the tip.

      Saw that /. item too. SAP doesn't look that enticing to me. It looks like an ailing product that wanted some opensource fairy dust sprinkled on it. I read a fair amount of the comments and looked around at the docs on the site.

      • The code is a weird blend of pascal and C++. It uses a proprietary "transpiler" to compile the pascal into C. Jesus.
      • It supports Perl through ODBC. Ick.
      • Despite marketing hype, many users reported a fairly negative experience on install.

      Postg

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