[Typo3-marketing] DBAL: Call for sponsors

[Kieran Given]

how much money could be generated through the TYPO3 community directly?

Everybody gives € X and a couple of companies burning to get an oracle
database connected to TYPO3 aswell?

What kind of figures/money/sponsorship do you need?

Kieran


Am 03.03.2004 15:25 Uhr schrieb Daniel Hinderink [TYPO3] unter
daniel at typo3.com:

> Hi Ben,
> 
>>> As it turns out, the time is just about right for getting DBAL done.
>>> In fact there will be no 3.6.0 anywhere soon if we don't get the sponsoring
>>> together NOW because the ground work will need to be done for many features
>>> in demand.
>> 
>> Hi D.,
>> 
>> What is this supposed to mean? No 3.6.0 anytime soon. Is DBAL that
>> important? It was my understanding (with my limited knowledge of db's)
>> that all the other db's do not play such an important role as more and
>> more companies are comfortable using MyQL. I have no clients yet using
>> 'alien' db's ;-) Does that mean "No sponsoring - No TYPO3 3.6.0"?
> 
> That means 3.6.0 will be delayed. The point is that DBAL serves as the basis
> for many other needed things, like versioning, etc. So we can't move on in
> tha way we'd like to, if we don't get some support.
> 
> Otherwise we have to go for other paid work first and the new version will
> be delayed. I hope you understand, but there is also a life to take care of.
> 
> It has become much easier to make DBAL through some changes in the core and
> it will never be as easy from now on. So we should not miss that chance.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Daniel
> 
>> 
>> gRTz
>> 
>> ben