Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and

From: Florian Weimer <fw(at)deneb(dot)enyo(dot)de>
To: "Richard P(dot) Welty" <rwelty(at)averillpark(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and
Date: 2006-02-13 16:52:19
Message-ID: 87vevjtd4s.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de
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* Richard P. Welty:

> Marc G. Fournier writes:
>>> according to FreeBSD ports:
>
>>> subversion uses it
>
> berkeley db is deprecated for subversion.

No, it's not. Go read the documentation.

> it was proving unreliable in the application

People in the field couldn't administrate it people because they
failed to grok the Berkeley DB documentation. This is only partly
Berkeley DB's fault, of course, but some blame has to be put on the
administrators, too.

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