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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: SQL client in KDE distribution?
From:       Corrin Lakeland <lakeland () acm ! org>
Date:       2001-11-30 21:41:35
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> >$0.02 (canadian pennies at that...)

Well, I'm going to put my $0.02 in favour of TOra's inclusion, though I think 
the NZ dollar is currently even lower than Canada's ;-)

I think the emphasis on Oracle over <insert free database here> is a pity 
(though understandable).  The major users of this program will no doubt have 
Oracle, especially with cheap Linux pricing.  However, I see the inclusion in 
KDE as bringing mainly casual users to TOra and these people will _not_ have 
Oracle.  Against this, as Shaheed has pointed out, I expect inclusion to 
increase non Oracle support in TOra: Make something available and support 
will follow, but wait for support and you wait forever.  At least TOra has 
some support for MySQL/postgres now.

The more I think about TOra the more uses I can think of for it.  Yes, I 
suspect it will have less users than say kspread, but I expect it will have 
more users than say kdevelop and we include that in KDE.  I think it will be 
a very popular application, and quite possibly make a number of businesses 
pick KDE over Windows.  I would put it in koffice: It appeals to a wide 
number of people using KDE for work and these people probably won't be using 
other development tools.

I do have two concerns: How compatable is it? I think it is essential for 
everything in KDE to compile on at least BSD and Solaris before it is 
included, though this is quite a general rule which I'm in no position to 
make.  My second concern is the size:  The binary on sourceforge is 
three megs which is much smaller than I guessed but still adds an extra 
fifteen minutes to those of us downloading KDE via a modem.

Corrin
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