[ale] %#&!! Microsoft XP and eMachines

[Jonathan Rickman]

On 19 Dec 2002, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> The software has a new database engine called Pervasive SQL. The front
> end requires the that the database engine be installed. It is not
> possible to use the old database engine with the new front end. The
> previous version of the application is no longer available for sale (Oct
> 2002). The Pervasive-SQL REQUIRES F*****G MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000 F*****G
> SERVER!!! Can't be used on a peer-to-peer with Win2K professional due to

I think Pervasive is also available on Netware 6. YMMV. I've noticed the
trend towards applications driving the platform more and more, and that
trend disturbs me. For instance, a certain company is looking at 2
software  packages for two separate functions. One runs exclusively on MS
SQL (a frequent occurance), the other is available on several RDBMS
platforms. Rather than run one on Oracle and the other on MS, the company
says, "Screw it, we're buying MS SQL2000 anyway." The bad part is, it
never seems to work the other way around. I've seen this sort of thing
drive more than one company to set themselves up as a 100% MS shop. Why
bother diversifying when all your backend databases run on MS. This is one
critical battle that MS is winning in the middle market. The high end is
still owned by Oracle and DB2, but as more and more application vendors
move to MS SQL, that will slowly change. It doesn't matter whether or not
the company wants MS SQL. When they are given only two choices, take the
canned app or roll your own, 9 times out of 10 they'll settle for the
canned app.

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Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net

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