Re: general questions

Hello, John Lim wrote: > > > > > Sadly, John refused to cooperate in the development of a single database > > abstraction layer. This seems to be a ego driven attitude that does not > > even reflect a good commercial vision that would favour the sales of his > > database tool. If he had accepted to cooperate in the development of > > only one database abstraction layer, the potential user base for his > > commercial tool would have been larger than ADO-DB user base. > > Manuel, > > I know I have big ego needs. But you are no pushover yourself in > this area. I must say that you never give up and always push your > point-of-view, which does make sense, but isn't always inclusive > of others. Until you prove that my points of view are wrong, I just assume that when you disagree you may not be getting my points of view quite right. So, for me it is quite logical that I keep trying to explain my points of view until you understand them. > As I mentioned in another posting, I couldn't use Metabase anyway > because I cannot see it handling 50 Gb Oracle databases well. I will > use ADODB when I can, and native oci8 when I cannot. Actually you never bothered to discuss how to improve Metabase to make it work as you claim it can't. Since you did not feel very much willing to cooperate, that sounds just an excuse to not do it. Unlike you, Lukas Smith and his partner approached to me and proposed to add to Metabase what they felt it was missing. Now they are working on it for the joy of everybody. When you are willing to talk reasonably, things move along. > I have also learned to respect you as I can hardly believe that there is > going to be a DB_Metabase in PEAR, but you seem to be pushing so hard > that everyone is giving in to you. > > You are quite a guy! Unlike you, I am not ego driven, so if all this goes well, it will not even make sense to call it DB_Metabase because there only be one abstraction layer which may still be called PEAR-DB. > PS: Thanks for the free plug of my commercial product... Maybe one day you stop to also agree that moving on a single abstraction layer would be much better than a single plug to your commercial product. There are not much tools like yours for either Metabase or PEAR-DB. This is your opportunity to come with something already developed. If you take too long, others will develop concurrent applications that will eventually be free and your opportunity is dead. Regards, Manuel Lemos