GNUe & MySQL AB ? -was-My fiscal ...

[Lloyd Budd]

On 18-May-04, at 21:58, cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:

>> So like others said, it depends on the nature of the program.
>
> The success of an open source project is _vitally_ dependent on there
> being a community being prepared to continue development of the
> software.

> They gave up on it, passing the "tarbaby" on to MySQL AB.  It is not
> totally evident just what the strategy can be there; the code is SO
> unusable for integration purposes that I can't see this as being
> anything other than a strategy to allow there to be some minimal amount
> of maintenance to keep it running on the dwindling numbers of Unixes,
> where it'll eventually die when no one that is using it now cares
> anymore.

This is interesting to me as GNUe was (mid-2003) using MySQL AB
as their back end (LOL) .  Any one know what GNUe's preferred DBMS
now is ?

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