[Home] [Groups] - Message: [Prev in Group] [Next in Group]

nu.kanga.list.mud-dev

25797: RE: [MUD-Dev] Is database access a bottleneck? Prevayler.

[Full Header] [Plain Text]
From: Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:36:04 -0000
Organization: Kanga.Nu
From: shren [mailto:shren@io.com] 
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Josh Goldshlag wrote:
 
>>   4) Max of 5 simultaneous queries.
  
>> It might be suitable, if you made sure to limit the number of
>> queries and were careful about database size.
 
> I hate little things like this, however.  It so blatantly states,
> "We're going to sell you crippled software and then when it can't
> limp any farther we're going to hope you're locked in."  You know
> that's what they want.  I'm not anti-microsoft, I'm
> anti-crippleware.

Yes, but if you are talking to it through ODBC, its very little work
to move to a different database. They are definitely trying to get
people into DBs though.

Dan

_______________________________________________
MUD-Dev mailing list
MUD-Dev@kanga.nu
https://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev