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

[Martin Burns]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, .jeff wrote:

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> > From: Marlene Bruce
> >
> > 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.

Given that we have CF/Linux already (do we have the install media btw?),
then we're looking for vanilla Linux hosting aren't we?


> so, any move we plan for teo/weo really needs to coincide with a
> recoding to be compatible with a win2k/mssql environment.

I'd be very reluctant to move to anything which adds additional
dependencies on things which cost money. I don't want us to be in a
position where at some point in the future we're shelling out for win2k/mssql
licenses.

Also, as a point of principle, I would anticipate some *major* resistance
to an MS platform, even if it's the correct thing to do technically (and I
take your point about ease of conversion).

Cheers
Martin

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