Re: GNU Enterprise

[Derek Neighbors <d_neighbors llamacom com>]

Rodrigo,

I will speak as an outsider looking in. :)  Mind you I am VERY much a FREE
software advocate. :)

On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> Apart from the widgets, all the bonobo part will be GNOME-dependant (of
> course, until bonobo is somewhat ported to other toolkits). And,
> although the bonobo part is quite small today, it will be extended
> everywhere, since we must make gnome-db fully compatible with all the
> gnome-office applications.

Speaking as a core developer of GNUe (whom hasnt fully investigated
gnome-db).  My two big questions remain as how long until you will be X
server and gtk independent?  and are you committed to accepting changes
that are maybe not in your current scope?

We really dont want to author our own data layer, but we can not be X or
GTK dependent.  While we love gnome and advocate it as much as possible
some of our clients arent ready for it yet. :)

> Oops! I don't know if I like too much the idea, we'll see when this
> happens. But I like gnome-db to be as it is today, the GNOME offical
> database access famework, included in gnome-office, etc. But what other
> people think about this?

I will just state at least 10 people on our team looked into gnome-db at a
glance.  All 10 instantly at looking at things said it wont work its a
gnome thing. :)  While you will get lots of fanfare from the "gnome"
seekers you turn a lot of people away in  giving the auroa of obeing
dependent on gnome. While I loathe Qt and KDE wouldnt it be nice if you
could offer something they could use as well?  So you dont end up with
another gnome vs. kde only on the database front?  I think bonobo has
already started to move in this united direction.  So I guess Gnome-db is
a great name, but might give a bad impression unless you want the stigma
of being tied to gnome.  :)  

-Derek