[for ALL] Valentina Server 1.x // And they say OpenBase is good?

[Charles Yeomans]

On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 04:11  PM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

> on 2/10/03 10:53 PM, Charles Yeomans at yeomans at desuetude.com wrote:
>
>>> ********************************************************************* 
>>> **
>>> 5) And to warm up you :-)
>>>
>>> We here already have Valentina Server working on Windows for now.
>>> As backend Igor use 1.x kernel (!)
>>> In other words we already have done:
>>>     -- threading model
>>>     -- sockets,
>>>     -- network protocol
>>>
>>> We can send all SQL commands of Valentina 1.x
>>> And read/write data...
>>>
>>> We have here crazy idea...May be we may ship Valentina Server 1.x ?
>>> It will be based on current kernel.
>>> No transactions. No new SQL parser... No Users/Group.
>>> But this will be multi-user, true Client-Server access to Valentina
>>> database!
>>>
>>> What you think?  Should we do this?
>>>
>>
>> Yes.  What I would suggest is that you make available a time-bombed
>> version of ValentinaServer 1.x for free to users with Valentina
>> licenses.  This would allow us to get started using it and would  
>> ensure
>> that the networking and threading layers are exercised and bugs found
>> before version 2 ships.
>
> Well in any case it will not be free.
>
> 1) we need funds to pay for developers, which work now on 2.0 target.
> As you could see we have now good team here.
> The more developers work on Valentina the faster we get our dreams.

That must be why SQL Server is so good, because Microsoft has so many  
developers on it.

>
> 2) we already have spend few months on development of this Server.
>
> 3) I think the right way is that users of 1.x Server will get free  
> upgrade
> to Server 2.0.


This is okay with me.

Charles Yeomans