[news.eclipse.technology.jsr220-orm] Re: Databases supported

[Haris Peco <snpe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

i don't know what is plan for this project, but database plugin is probably
dtp and they have plan for late 6Q1 - it is now unusable - oracle driver is
generic and port to postgresql is easy (we need only db definition file -
mostly define database types)
it is better choose another plugin - better choice currently is sqlexplorer,
quantum ...
michael wrote:

> ditto
> 
> Michael
> 
> Am Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:19:01 +0200 schrieb Werner Punz <werpu@xxxxxx>:
> 
>> Yes please add postgresql support, it really is one
>> of the best OSS dbs out there, and definitely has reached
>> a critical mass to justify an inclusion.
>>
>>
>> snpe wrote:
>>> +1 for postgresql
>>>
>>> advantage - no partnership with sco
>>>
>>> Renaud Denis wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> Bill a Ãcrit :
>>>>
>>>>> I am sorry to hear that PostgreSQL is not supported.  We did a project
>>>>> with MySQL because it was "free" and then found out it is not free to
>>>>> commercial organziations like ours.  Now we pay a licensing fee and
>>>>> carefully track assignement of licenses, which is another cost.
>>>>>
>>>>> PostgreSQL is truly free.  It also seems to be far more robust and
>>>>> reliable than MySQL.  We love Eclipse, so its lack of support here is
>>>>> unfortunate and will probably force us to use Hibernate.
>>>>> I would like to urge Eclipse's JSR220-ORM planners to include
>>>>> PostgreSQL
>>>>> in their plans and let everyone know.