On Wednesday 24 February 2010 12:54 AM, Storm Dragon wrote:
Hi, +1 Will is like the accessibility version of a knight in shining armor, and along comes this evil monster who, unprevoked, attacked our knight. Of course people are gonna be mad as hell. Totally agreed. So, if Oracle doesn't like blanket accusations hurled at them, they shouldn't take such foolish actions. exactly, and that too when you stop such a crutial project, not that it will totally die. I also understand that Oracle may choose to not cooporate with accessibility work in the future if they are met with such reaction. That is, of course, up to them. It's not like they are the only choice. MySQL is, as far as I can tell, completely accessible. I have had no trouble using phpmyadmin. Of course it's been a while, but I doubt it has changed much, it's a web interface after all. There's also something called postgerSQL or something like that. I don't know how accessible it is, but it is another alternative that may be worth checking in to and premoting if they take accessibility seriously. I was actually going to refer to postgresql because it is pritty accessible with the psql commandline interface. And may I say, that Oracle might not die but the development may slow down due to such major dirty dicisions taken by a certain company to stop such funding such an important project. Happy hacking. Krishnakant. |