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SQLite is used for small and embedded systems, which (if successful) can have very long lifetimes. If you were building something like an ATM for instance, you
by foxylad 9y ago
SQLite is used for small and embedded systems, which (if successful) can have very long lifetimes. If you were building something like an ATM for instance, you would be very sensible to sign a 35-year support contract for a crucial part of your system.
- delinka 9y agoHave you seen an ATM? They're running Windows & SQL Server now. Microsoft isn't offering 35yr support contracts for Windows. This is only partially sarcastic.
- bch 9y agoImagine a company like Boeing then, which does have a 35 year shelf-life on their products.
- SteveNuts 9y agoPretty soon we'll see aircraft running Kafka, microservices, elasticsearch, etc. All running in kubernetes.
- StavrosK 9y agoAt least that way if the plane crashes you can just restart it.
- dotancohen 9y agoRestart just the microservice that crashed! $ sudo service port-flaps restart
- linkmotif 9y agoMy stack
- mst 9y ago"That's not the sort of 'above the clouds' we had in mind"
- chungy 9y agoMicrosoft has nowhere near the quality, security and bug-fix track record, documentation coverage, nor testsuite coverage that SQLite offers. There's simply no way they can possibly provide such support.
- ZenoArrow 9y agoThere are products that Microsoft offers long support contracts for. To give an example, EOL for XP Embedded is in April 2019, which means XP in all its forms would've been supported for about 18 years.