[Seaside] Re: Database Integration

Dan Shafer dan at shafermedia.com
Sun Jun 4 01:30:31 UTC 2006


Thanks for the detective work!

Dan

On Jun 3, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Wilkes Joiner wrote:

> It took a while to track it down, but in the comments on squeaksource
> for OmniBase-jf.2.mcz:
>
> "OmniBase is now available for free for commercial and educational
> purposes. Free version of OmniBase is prohibited to be used in the oil
> or military industries."
>
>
> On 6/3/06, Dan Shafer <dan at shafermedia.com> wrote:
>> Thanks to everyone who replied to my original query.
>>
>> I suspect that OmniBase may turn out to be best for my purposes. But
>> there is some confusion about its licensing. I've written the author
>> an email; hopefully I'll hear back soon.
>>
>> I've read in the archives of this list that a commercial license is
>> $400. That's affordable in my case. However, his Web site doesn't
>> even mention a commercial product as far as I can tell. His site at
>> least conveyed to me the impression that he has a single product,
>> it's free, and you pay for support. If I understand his support plan
>> correctly, it costs almost $600 because he charges a minimum of 8
>> hours. That's OK but if that's per-incident, of course, it won't
>> work, at least for me.
>>
>> If someone on the list knows the answer, I'd appreciate hearing it.
>> Otherwise, when I do hear from the OmniBase author, I'll report what
>> I hear.
>>
>> Dan
>>
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