Alan, you should re-read this thread you just responded to.
We have continued Oracle support because it seemed like the
obvious thing to do (why take out support that already exists?).
We also had some feeling that ACS Classic Tcl wasn't long for
this world, and wanted to give ACS/Oracle fans a means to
transition to OpenACS smoothly (this week's events confirmed
our suspiscions). Finally, we know that some people might
eventually want to make OpenACS work on other Open
RDBMSs, like Interbase, or SAPdb. By making sure our code can
be multi-DB compatible (by keeping Oracle), we are paving the
way for OpenACS to be a truly cross-platform system.
That said, our support for PG continues as strongly as ever. And
by including other players, I think we're actually *more* Open,
rather than less.
