[plug] kernel driver frusturation

[Craig Ringer]

Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> ITs cool denis. Indeed it was tulip.
> 
> Couldnt find a reference on google, and tulip doesnt have a description
> string in woody installer so i missed it
> 
> but I used it and it works spankin.....
> 
> will provide updates to list later on the sanity of the SAP stuff.

I'll be interested in hearing about that. As I've been mainly using 
PostgreSQL (plus MySQL 4 occasionally for its excellent fulltext 
indexing), it'll be interesting to hear how another of the OSS DB 
options goes.

AFAIK there are now the following major Open Source RDBMSes:
	Ingres - Computer Associates
		 http://www3.ca.com/Solutions/Collateral.asp?CID=59656
	PostgreSQL
		http://www.postgresql.org/
	SAP-DB/MaxDB (now via MySQL)
		http://www.mysql.com/products/maxdb/
	Firebird (Interbase derived)
		http://firebird.sourceforge.net/
	MySQL
		http://www.mysql.com/products/mysql/

... plus specialised or non-RDBMS ones like:
	ZODB
	Gadfly
	Sqlite

We're becoming spoilt for choice. Especially now that MySQL is actually 
useful for at least very simple real databases (it may lack many 
critical features like stored procedures, but at least it now supports 
transactions). I do wonder if all of those DBs are likely to be around 
forever, though - mindshare issues and all. It'll be particularly 
interesting to see what happens to ingres and SAP-DB.

Craig Ringer