[Typo3-marketing] DBAL: Call for sponsors

[Daniel Hinderink [TYPO3]]

Hi Kieran,

> 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?

That would be very good. So far sponsoring was mostly done by large
companies, like for TemplaVoilà and DAM. Most consultancies have not been
ready to invest in TYPO3's development.

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

Please check out the project description, section "funds".

Cheers

Daniel

> 
> 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
> 
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