[TYPO3-dev] sysext's

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

Moreno Feltscher wrote:
> Once again (in the correct list) :-)
> 
> -1 for removing DBAL as well, otherwise please change this: Database:
> MySQL or any other database system supported by the TYPO3 DBAL (e.g.
> Oracle, Postgres and a lot of others) on
> http://typo3.org/about/system-requirements/
> 
> If you also want to stay attractive to business companies, which also
> are able to spend money to the assocation for developing the core,
> please keep in mind that many of them use enterprise database
> solutions as Oracle or MSSQL.

Such companies stay with Oracle or MSSQL just because they spent time and huge money training their people for these databases. But this is not a problem of TYPO3. TYPO3 default database is MySQL and it is a requirement. If company wants to use TYPO3 with other database, it has to be ready for glitches, problems, etc. No one ever promised that TYPO3 will work with other databases as well as with MySQL. There is some support but I see no reason to supply DBAL for everyone if only 1% uses it. That big fat 1% can load DBAL from TER, no big deal.

If big companies could make a right choice from the beginning, they would have invested in MySQL enterprise training, not to Oracle or MSSQL, which both has huge problems as databases (much bigger then MySQL).

The above was my private opinion, it is not official TYPO3 point of view.

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