Re: Post not appear on group "comp.lang.java.programmer"

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:44:03 -0400
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Twisted wrote:

On Aug 23, 4:57 pm, Lew <l...@lewscanon.com> wrote:

Manish Pandit wrote:

One option you can try is to use database as your bundle. European
text is easy to store on a file system as ISO 8859-1, but for unicode,
you are better off using a database like MySQL. To give you an

Ooh - better off using MySQL. I'm not so sure about that. You might want to
use a real database, like PostgreSQL or Oracle Express or Derby.


This is exceedingly strange. You pooh-pooh a free solution and proceed
to suggest three proprietary and very expensive ones that J. Random
Java Hobbyist can surely not afford.


PostgreSQL is free and open source.
<http://www.postgresql.org/>
Oracle Express is free to develop, deploy and distribute.
<http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html>
Derby is free and open source.
,http://db.apache.org/derby/>

I really have no idea why you think that constitutes "pooh-pooh[ing] a free
solution" or why you think that free, open source products are "proprietary
and very expensive".

If Joe Hobbyist cannot afford free, he's truly desperate.

--
Lew

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