Fyracle: Oracle-Mode Firebird 23
mAriuZ writes "A beta is currently available that allow Firebird to support the major Oracle-based ERP/CRM application Compiere with virtually no change to the Compiere code base. No other proprietary or open-source database system can currently do this.
The best part : Fyracle is open source
if you want to compile it manually it's a set of patches that needs to be run over the firebird 1.5.1 source tree."
This is really cool. (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:This is really cool. (Score:4, Interesting)
For some of us, that's a really good thing: ideas get re-thought and we get better solutions. For others, yes, that's a bad thing: software vendors go implementing their solutions for only one database server that costs out the butt, and think nothing of it -- software's expensive, why not make it more expensive? The client pays for it anyway, not the vendor. There are two solutions here: make a cheaper version of the database server (fyracle) or recode the application so it's not oracle-specific.
How many Oracle-clone databases do we need? Should we encourage vendors to continue making oracle-only software, should we encourage them to use badly-designed language features? (Oracle's a bit of a whore as far as implementing just about anything they think will get software sold -- even if it's an absolutely abysmal idea.)
Re:Now that ibFireBird has done it... (Score:3, Interesting)