[Charlug] REAL stuff

[Bob Evans]

SQLite is embedded into things like:
Google

Mac OS/X

Firefox

Skype

See:

http://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

-be



On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Leam Hall <leam at reuel.net> wrote:

> On one hand, yes. On the other I'd like to have at least some time to
> figure out the basics so I could really grasp what he might be able to
> provide.
>
> I see a potential niche for tightly coupled performant software packages.
> For example, a website built on LighTTPD that uses the SQLite included in
> PHP itself.
>
> The issue is that most businesses save money by following general trends.
> It's cheaper to buy a server twice as big than to hire a programmer twice=
 as
> good. There's an approaching problem in that large organizations are payi=
ng
> boatloads of money for power and footprint in expensive datacenters. Their
> first step has been virtualization and that will buy them 2-3 years. In t=
hat
> time application isolation will drvie hardware needs down and the ability=
 to
> make a very small "server" do your mostly encapsulated work will be usefu=
l.
> Large businesses will buy "devices" that do stuff and the devices will be
> Linux or BSD boxes configured a special way. Smaller businesses and
> non-profits will use some virtualization product to put a lot of servers =
on
> one box. If you can make a machine host twice as many guests for the same
> hardware footprint and power consumption, you have a niche.
>
> Or so my thinking goes...
>
> Leam
>
>
> Bob Evans wrote:
>
>> Well, the principal author of SQLite is Dr.Richard Hipp, of Charlotte,
>> North
>> Carolina.
>> Maybe he will come back to the LUG again & speak...
>>
>> Sound good?
>>
>> -be
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Jason Edgecombe <jason at rampaginggeek.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>>  Leam Hall wrote:
>>>
>>>  Bob Evans wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  I just wanted to share with any developers on list:
>>>>>
>>>>> I've had good success using REAL Basic and REAL SQL. I can write it
>>>>> once,
>>>>> and run on either OS/X, Windows, or Linux.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am, as you know,quite lazy...
>>>>> -be
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  Me too, but I find the SQLite issue more intriguing. Not being much =
of
>>>> a
>>>>  Brainiac, I wonder home much of what I do with MySQL could be done in
>>>> SQLite, and done better? My client's traffic is measured in dozens of
>>>> hits a
>>>> day, and hundreds of entries vice the thousands and millions MySQL is
>>>> made
>>>> for.
>>>>
>>>>  These two links look useful in the sqlite vs mysql category:
>>>>
>>> http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.281660.5
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3630/sqlite-vs-mysql
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
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