No offense to all of the effort referenced here, I understand that there are many computing contexts with different needs. However, I really need to ask: am I

No offense to all of the effort referenced here, I understand that there are many computing contexts with different needs. However, I really need to ask: am I the only one who cringes at the notion of a transactional database being a job processing nexus? Deadlocks anyone? Really sounds like asking for serious trouble to me.