Re: Which Database
- From: "toby" <toby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 18 Mar 2007 19:14:47 -0700
On Mar 18, 9:24 pm, "Jim Carlock" <anonym...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 16, 1:06 am, "Jim Carlock" stated ...
.mdb files can be deployed with any application without paying any"toby" <t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
extra moneys for special licensing. The .mdb though requires a
Microsoft Windows OS, so Microsoft gets their money through the
sales of the operating system.
: And you don't see this as a problem?
Not really.
It may not be a problem for the OP's situation - perhaps he knows
they're all Windows laptops.
But in general, the problem is that MS gets to dictate both the
application and the underlying operating system, which, being the tail
wagging the engineering dog, usually leads to suboptimal solutions.
[The way you phrased it also invokes the spectre of monopoly: they
'sell' a database system, a source code control system, a CMS, and so
on -- but if, as you say, they make the real money on the operating
system (which it follows they don't want you to exercise choice in,
and would, pace several adverse antitrust findings, prefer that real
choice did not actually exist), then it tends to explain why these
layered products are often inferior (although Office is reflexively
cited as an exception to this rule).]
I don't know what exists for Unix operating systems.
Perhaps someone that works with Unix and Unix databases
knows? Access represents a well crafted beautiful design.
Would you know of a relative database system housed in one file
comparable to Access?
SQLite comes to mind, which the OP already knows about.
--
Jim Carlock
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