Re: [PDO] [RFC] An Idea for PDO 2

Greetings, PDO community! My name is David Sceppa and I am a program manager working at Microsoft on improving SQL Server for PHP data hosting. Let me first just say that Microsoft is very interested in participating in the PDO 2 effort and I plan to actively engage in the discussions of the spec and the core via the mailing list. As a relative newcomer to this space, Microsoft is highly incented to see a single solution that serves the needs of this community. This is both from the standpoint of technical investment (i.e. we would like to focus our resources on delivering one rock solid answer rather than many across the space), and for customer clarity as having too many choices often winds up being confusing. We believe that PDO 2 is that solution going forward in the PHP space, and we are therefore committed to seeing it through to fruition. The approach that's been described in proposals (vendor-built drivers can be covered via CLAs while the core components remain CLA-free) is something I believe to be in the best interests of both driver writers and the developers who use PDO. We would prefer to have the spec and the core covered by CLA, so that we can make more direct contributions, yet we understand that the community wishes to keep the spec and the core CLA-free. Microsoft has a great deal of experience and lessons learned (both positive and negative) through the evolution of ODBC and other data access technologies that give us a unique perspective and we look forward to contributing to the PDO 2 effort. I look forward to diving into more technical discussions on the mailing list on issues such as whether or not there should be a set of core PDO libraries, the PDO metadata vocabulary, driver extensibility, etc. David Sceppa Program Manager, SQL Server Driver for PHP Microsoft