Paradigma Wants You - Valentina Community Server

[Kim Kohen]

On 02/07/2007, at 1:12 AM, Thorsten Hohage wrote:

> If we are talking about a solution and users and licences then I  
> think the customer used the app and the database as a tool to earn  
> some money, they're probably not a NGO? So if they want  
> professional software, than they need to spend money on it.
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Why, it could just as easily be a non-profit charity with 10  
volunteers who take web donations. They go to hotscripts and download  
a GPL'd donation script for MySQL.  We could exchange examples all  
day but it doesn't prove anything except who can type fastest:)

It's not about being free - they're offering PHP for free now with  
VCS, it's about having to buy/run 2 servers and sync them somehow  
when it should be able to happen on a single server.


> But of course there are several more benefits. I only need to  
> maintain ONE software for every needs, doesn't matter if this is a  
> RB-app for a small company, or a community site using Linux and  
> PHP. I can exchange db-design between both "platforms", ...
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But you still have to sync the data and we already know no other  
client can connect to VCS. That, in itself, is going to be a challenge.


> Furthermore when I compare my solutions running on Valentina to my  
> solution running on mySQL then I find a further argument, why this  
> offer is really cool: SPEED!
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Valentina is fast, of course, but sometimes it doesn't matter that  
much (I can hear Ruslan fainting in the background:)  I just logged  
into our biggest FMP solution - @ 400,000 records over 7 tables. I  
did a search which queries all tables and it returned the result in  
around half a second - and this is from my MacBook Pro under Rosetta.  
Valentina might be faster but in solutions like this it's not going  
to matter.


> Btw. - now I'm not paid by Valentina marketing ;-)
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perhaps you should<g>

cheers

kim