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Re: [gap-discuss] ANN: DataBasin 0.4
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Riccardo Mottola |
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Re: [gap-discuss] ANN: DataBasin 0.4 |
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Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:01:46 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:02:47 +0100, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
I don't think that a "local" version makes much sense at all.
Why do you think so? Our stance is that is the right way to do things.
Well, I think we all love our own stuff. We love our freedom.
However, I think it is pretty clear that business is oing to explore the
way of the "service" in terms of SaaS and PaaS.
Like it or not. Maybe and perhaps hopefully it might not last in its
current form, but ignoring it or "fighting" it is useless.
We all liked the command line, we liked fvwm, Emacs... there were clones
of OpenLook and Motif. Now? Well at the end you can see many Linux
distributions (just not to make names) as a slow, inefficient windows
reimplementation.
On the short term, one can build open stuff using the platform
service
like Heroku or more limitedly the force.com platform itself.
I don't know about them -- could you tell me in one sentence about each?
Well, to put it shortly, they allow you to build your own stuff, on their
servers.
To make salesforce CRM they developed technology to give the software as a
service. That makes it highly customizable, not just a "shrink-wrapped"
software. That is, their built a platform
You can choose not just to use their software (and thus SaaS) but get the
platform as a service, and thus PaaS (to throw in another buzzword). You
can use the same database and the same language (Apex) to build your own
stuff. You can even develop "free" stuff, although it runs on a strictly
proprietary platform. It is thus your code on their base.
With Heroku you can go a step further and instead of using a proprietary
platform, you can use Ruby or Java and you can also run those locally and
have the benefit of local vs. remote.
With that, I state again the goal of DataBasin: it is a tool to allow you
to interact, develop, extract the Data existing on the remote platform or
service. Its goal is to be able to do that without tricks and by using
free code that is capable of running on a free OS. Otherwise you will be
again forced to use something proprietary to interact with such a system.
It may be beyond your freedom to choose to ignore that.
Just an explanation without a judice.
Riccardo
- Re: ANN: DataBasin 0.4, (continued)
- Re: ANN: DataBasin 0.4, Ivan Vučica, 2011/11/05
- Re: ANN: DataBasin 0.4, Richard Stallman, 2011/11/06
- Re: ANN: DataBasin 0.4, Pirmin Braun, 2011/11/06
- Re: ANN: DataBasin 0.4, Richard Stallman, 2011/11/06
- Re: ANN: DataBasin 0.4, Pirmin Braun, 2011/11/07
- Re: ANN: DataBasin 0.4, Maarten Sander, 2011/11/07
- Re: ANN: DataBasin 0.4, Richard Stallman, 2011/11/07
- Re: ANN: DataBasin 0.4, Scott Christley, 2011/11/06
- Re: ANN: DataBasin 0.4, Richard Stallman, 2011/11/06
- Re: ANN: DataBasin 0.4, Scott Christley, 2011/11/15
- Re: [gap-discuss] ANN: DataBasin 0.4,
Riccardo Mottola <=
- Re: [gap-discuss] ANN: DataBasin 0.4, Richard Stallman, 2011/11/07