[Grok-dev] Re: Benefits of Grok -- please contribute

Luciano Ramalho luciano at ramalho.org
Tue May 15 08:11:34 EDT 2007


On 5/15/07, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/14/07, Luciano Ramalho <luciano at ramalho.org> wrote:
> > Ideally, it should be simple to start any project on the ZODB and
> > later switch to a relational dababase back-end, with as little pain as
> > possible.
>
> That's only possible if you restrict yourself to storing the data in
> such a way that you always can map it to a relational database think.
> I am completely and utterly 100% convinced that's an amazingly bad
> idea.

I actually agree. I just think that showing that the migration from
ZODB is doable is important from a marketing perspective, like Martin
has said, because it lowers the perceived risk of the platform.

Cheers,

Luciano


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