Re: DBMS Engines and Performance

[Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Ron Johnson wrote:

> The company might not have the resources to maintain 2 backends, or modify
> the whole system so that it is backend neutral.  Maybe they use lots of
> MySQL-specific features that would make re-engineering it an
> arduous/imposible/expensive task, and thus not feasible.

Ron,

  In the case of the system I'd like to use, it's not a company but a group
of talented coders. And, they do use a lot of MySQL-specific features. If I
had the money I'd sponsor the port, but I don't. I also don't have the time
or expertise to underake it myself.

Rich

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