What is Holding SAP-DB Back?

Derek Neighbors queries: "The current story about MySQL 4.0 has erupted into a Postgres vs. MySQL debate. We at GNU Enterprise, who have used about all Free and Propietary databases, would like to know why exactly people arent using SAP-DB? It clearly is on par with Oracle, is GPL and frankly has an awesome support team in SAP AG. There was a PG vs SAP-DB recently. Someone else mentioned that you can get CDROMs for free. So again the question is 'What exactly is hindering a wider acceptance of SAP-DB in Free/Open Software projects?'"

What SAP doesn't want you to know...

[skryche]

Has anyone else noticed the mysterious blacked out sections on the SAP-DB history page [sapdb.org]? Creepy.

Re:one more possible reason...

[Tonetheman]

Winzip will open tgz files.

I guess if you cannot figure out how to open the tgz file in Windows, it is probably better that you are not trying to install SAP. Natural selection is a wonderful thing.

Because...

[Anonymous Coward]

For me the reason is because it _IS_ licensed under the GPL.

I'll take PostreSQL any day, thank god for that license.

Re:sapdb is too complicated - interbase/firebird.

[Anonymous Coward]

I also like Interbase/Firebird. Good tradeoff between ease of use and functionality.

Does it beat vi / grep?

Re:Umm...

[crawling_chaos]

Not sure what business a database has driving a tape deck directly anyway.

Bastard DBA From Hell Response:
That's where we keep the temporary table space for users we don't like. Can't get punchcard systems anymore dammit.

Dude!

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know about you, but I would so hire an electrician that only had a pair of dykes and a roll of electrical tape!

Use your imagination!

Double Negative..

[tommck]

has a build system that could be only described as ununderstandable

That's not a word! You should have said "derstandable"! ;-)

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