Marcus Denker <marcus at ira.uka.de> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 01:53:48AM +0200, Cees de Groot wrote:
> > 
> > However, you could run an ODB inside Squeak, so you'd have just three files:
> > the VM, the Image, the Database. That's how I do it with OmniBase and VW, no
> > problem getting it hosted (oh wait, that's my own company hosting it ;-) But
> > you get the idea). 
> > 
> If we have a good persistent object store, couldn't we store everything
> inside?
This would be a very interesting solution in many respects. However, I
have this theory that there is considerable value in using a PODS (plain
old database system) in a lot of situations. Mostly it is a matter of
providing comfort for the customer and administrator (I'm working on a
website - once it is _finally_ out of my life I'd prefer never to see it
again!) by being able to say "All your data is in this perfectly
ordinary FooBar mk11 database. If you need reports, backups, mirroring,
enlightenment, snackfoods or dharma, use its normal tools. Don't bother
me."

Hence my interest in something like MySQL/ODBC/whatever. I do very much
see the interest in the 'proprietary' Squeak approach for a lot of other
cases though. Guess we need both. SMOP, heh?

tim

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