I temporarily withdraw my recommendation until the intentions of
Oracle become less cloudy...
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Allow me to make a recommendation to my fellow Free Software developers. Oracle Corporation's recent business practices show aggression toward the Free/Open Source Software community, and their database couldn't be confused with Free software if one had allergies and a blindfold on. Therefore, I recommend to my compatriots in the F/OSS community the deprecation of oracle as a database back end to our software. I am not necessarily suggesting that software currently providing compatibility with the database remove the existing support; however, moving forward, the effort that would otherwise be spent creating an oracle connectivity layer might instead be spent adding support for one of the many fine F/OSS database engines. For more information on the process of deprecating software, see Wikipedia: …[Read more]