[steering] Migration plan (was: Gonna start calling votes)

[.jeff]

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> From: Marlene Bruce
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> 3. Ditch Oracle (for which our license was never
>    satisfactorily confirmed by Dan, BTW) in favor
>    of MySQL or Postgres.
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my vote would be for postgres if those are our only two choices.
unfortunately, it won't be that easy for teo or weo.  the code for those
sites is highly oracle specific and would take quite a bit of work to clean
up to work with another database server.  the reality is that being a
coldfusion app, we're far more likely to be able to find hosting for it if
it were designed to run on win2k and ms sql server.  99.9% of all the
coldfusion hosts out there are running that configuration.  few to none
offer linux coldfusion hosting.  so, any move we plan for teo/weo really
needs to coincide with a recoding to be compatible with a win2k/mssql
environment.

the rest of the plan i agree with (except i'm going to miss not having my
meo space and meo email address).

.jeff

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