Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to OpenACS and Oracle

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Posted by Alan Pater on
I have been away and am now re-familiarizing myself with OpenACS. I've been looking through the 4.x threads and docs and keep coming across references to Oracle. And I keep thinking, what's up with that?

As far as I remember, the Prime Reason that OpenACS was started in the first place was because Oracle is not Open.

I assume the point has changed. I get the impression that the point is now to develop ACS (changing the A to something else, because ArsDigita is no longer involved). If the point is no longer to develop a CS system on an Open DBMS, then drop the Open as well. There is poll on the front page about a name change, can I change my vote? I initialy voted for no name change, in order to keep historical references, but I now think that it should be changed, to something without the word "Open".

Cheers