[Zope-DB] Re: Interested in continued Oracle support in Zope? Raise your hand!

[Andreas Kaiser]

Dario Lopez-Kästen wrote:

> 1) Does anyone out there have a business case for using Oracle with 
> Python/Zope?

We develop Zope/Plone/Oracle applications for one of our customers.

> 2) Will anyone suffer badly, ie. will switch from Python or Zope to 
> something else, if Oracle support would dissapear?

definitly yes.

> 3) Will anyone suffer badly, ie. will switch from Python or Zope to 
> something else, if Oracle support is not improved? (ie less crashes, 
> better throughput, etc).

Until now, we always found workarounds if problems occured. One major 
problem was getting stored procedures to work with Zope (german NLS 
environment). Our workaround for that is really ugly and i would feel 
much better, if I was able to use "DCOracle 2 Stored Procedure" objects 
instead of embedding code into our Zope-Products.

> 4) Of those who say yes to at least one of 1-3, who can invest actual 
> cash to create and maintain good quality Oracle Support in Python/Zope?

Depends on future projects, their size and budget. ATM unfortunately not.

> 5) Of those who say yes to at least one of 1-3, who can invest time to 
> create and maintain good quality Oracle Support in Python/Zope?

That would be possible, although I doubt my python and in-depth-oracle 
knowledges are strong enough for that kind of software :(

> So I am interested in what the future, if any, there is with Oracle and 
> Zope.

Me too!


Andreas