On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 06:09:46PM +0000, Jim Fulton wrote:
I think that this is a different beast. We have plans for essentially "client-server" support for the Z Object Datrabase, initially by hosting the object database in an RDBMS. This would not really solve the problem that started this thread. David wanted to be able to do development on a machine that has a very slow (or, reading between the lines, intermittent) connection to the production server. In a client-server model, the development server would be hampered by a slow connection to the database server.
Also, as performance becomes more and more important, it's going to be necessary also to perhaps use seperate databases for production/development, not to mention for reliability. I know this isn't a problem yet, but certainly it could be very soon with a successful implementation. I know we always ran seperate versions of Oracle for test/development (for other reasons too) on seperate machines, even though "slow conections" werent' the issue. Even if you could show that it shouldn't be a concern, it is how people do things, and they aren't want to change :-) Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli | petrilli@amber.org