Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: Re: First Major Open Source Database]

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От The Hermit Hacker
Тема Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: Re: First Major Open Source Database]
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0001062024180.18498-100000@thelab.hub.org
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Ответ на [Fwd: Re: First Major Open Source Database]  (Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>)
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Sounds good to me ...

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Lamar Owen wrote:

> [Ok, I've been in touch with the author of the 'First Major Open Source
> Database' article.  Here's what he wants to do.  Let me know what you
> think, and correct any misinformation I may have fed him.]
> 
> --
> Lamar Owen
> WGCR Internet Radio
> 1 Peter 4:11
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Doc Searls <doc@searls.com>
> Subject: Re: First Major Open Source Database
> To: Jason Kroll <hyena@ssc.com>
> CC: mlr@ssc.com, lamar.owen@wgcr.org
> 
> To move this along quickly, I suggest this as a sidebar we can run as 
> a table in the piece at 
> http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/conversations/010.html ...
> 
> ----------------
> 
> Credit where due
> 
> Since this interview went up, the response has been overwhelmingly 
> positive. Some readers, however, have urged us to give full credit to 
> the other open source databases that are already out there and have 
> prior claims to the "major" label. The strongest urgings have come 
> from PostgreSQL developers, who have provided us with some points and 
> links that we are happy to pass along here.
> 
> The points:
> 
> - University Ingres, developed starting in 1977, qualifies for the 
> 'First Major Open Source Database' honor. Ingres is the direct 
> ancestor of PostgreSQL.
> 
> - PostgreSQL is at version 6.5.3, and has been open source since the 
> beginning. "The development is very open, the developers friendly, 
> and the code is improving by leaps and bounds," writes Lamar Owen, 
> RPM Package Maintainer with the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. 
> He says "PostgreSQL has shipped with RedHat Linux as part of the 
> 'Official Boxed Set' since RedHat 5.0." He also recommends comparing 
> RDBMSes by the "ACID criteria." These are: "Atomicity, Consistency, 
> Isolation, Durability."
> 
> - Hacking database code is not lightweight work. "Kernel hacking is 
> not a walk in the park, nor is GUI hacking, library hacking, or any 
> other tool hacking," Owen says, "But, database hacking is a league 
> unto itself....The learning curve for doing back-end database 
> development is the steepest of any project of which I am aware."
> 
> Here are two useful links:
> 
> - The freshmeat.net appindex entry for databases 
> <http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/daemons/database.html>
> 
> - PostgreSQL.org's comparison chart <http://www.postgresql.org>
> 
> Alert us to more and we'll put them here.
> 
> -- Doc Searls
> 
> -------------
> 
> Here is the same thing, in HTML:
> 
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
> <html>
> 
>     <head>
>         <title>Credit Where Due</title>
>     </head>
> 
>     <body>
>         <h2>Credit where due</h2>
>         <p>Since this interview went up, the response has 
> been overwhelmingly positive. Some readers, however, have urged us to 
> give full credit to the other open source databases that are already 
> out there and have prior claims to the "major" label. The 
> strongest urgings have come from PostgreSQL developers, who have 
> provided us with some points and links that we are happy to pass 
> along here.</p>
>         <p>The points:</p>
>         <p>— University Ingres, developed starting in 
> 1977, qualifies for the 'First Major Open Source Database' honor. 
> Ingres is the direct ancestor of PostgreSQL.</p>
>         <p>— PostgreSQL is at version 6.5.3, and has 
> been open source since the beginning. "The development is very 
> open, the developers friendly, and the code is improving by leaps and 
> bounds," writes Lamar Owen, RPM Package Maintainer with the 
> PostgreSQL Global Development Group. He says "PostgreSQL has 
> shipped with RedHat Linux as part of the 'Official Boxed Set' since 
> RedHat 5.0." He also recommends comparing RDBMSes by the 
> "ACID criteria." These are: "Atomicity, Consistency, 
> Isolation, Durability."</p>
>         <p>— Hacking database code is not lightweight 
> work. "Kernel hacking is not a walk in the park, nor is GUI 
> hacking, library hacking, or any other tool hacking," Owen says, 
> "But, database hacking is a league unto itself....The learning 
> curve for doing back-end database development is the steepest of any 
> project of which I am aware."</p>
>         <p>Here are two useful links:</p>
>         <ul>
>             <li><a 
> href="http:/www.freshmeat.net/ppindex/aemons/atabase.html">The 
> freshmeat.net appindex entry for databases</a>
>             <li><a 
> href="http:/www.postgresql.org">PostgreSQL.org's comparison chart</a>
>         </ul>
>         <p>Alert us to more and we'll put them here.</p>
>         <p>— Doc Searls
>     </body>
> 
> </html>
> 
> 
> 
> ----------
> 
> Does that work? If so, let's get it up.
> 
> Doc, in the basement of Moscone, in the surreal Macworld where Apple 
> still, amazingly, lives.
> 
> ----------
> Doc Searls
> Senior Editor, Linux Journal
> doc@ssc.com
> http://www.linuxjournal.com
> Office: 544 Oak Park Way, Emerald Hills, CA 94062-4038
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> ----------
> 
> ************
> 

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