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  • From: Bob Kline <bkline AT rksystems.com>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Is this what I want?
  • Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:54:10 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Tim Uckun wrote:

> At 09:32 AM 07/19/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Tim Uckun wrote:
> >
> >
> >Same answer you'll get for many open-source projects. You have the
> >disadvantage that there's no company guaranteeing the software and with
> >the economic incentive to enhance it. You have the advantage of access
> >to the source code. For many, this advantage outweighs the lack of a
> >vendor, and as you probably are aware, vendors are not always an
> >unalloyed blessing. For freetds, however, there's an extra twist to
> >consider, in that the project works without benefit of full access to
> >the specification it's implementing.
>
> If I ever get decent support from a vendor I pledge allegience to
> them for life. Too bad it never actually happens. Seems like
> people's idea of support is to point the finger at somebody else or
> just to ignore you. I guess what I am trying to say is that I don't
> expect support one way or another. I am much more interested in a
> product that will work in the first. Not being a C programmer I
> doubt if I could actually use the source code or fix it though.
>

I've had better success with vendors, but the ones who do understand
what "decent support" means are in the minority, and even for them I
think I'd stop short of allegiance for life. :->}

> >I would suggest you do some prototyping and stress-testing to make your
> >own determination as to the suitability of the software.
>
> Yes I will start on this right away. Should I use the latest stable
> version (.5) or get the CVS snapshot?
>

I'll defer to Brian on that question. Perhaps both?

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Bob Kline
mailto:bkline AT rksystems.com
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