[13th_Disciple]

Originally Posted by floris

Don't pull my site into your quests. Thank you.

I don't see where your site was specifically mentioned in his post.. It is an opinion about how to bring together all for a singular common good. I see nothing bad about that and don't see it as a "quest" of any kind..

Nice post, buro9.. i for one think it is a good idea. But I doubt there is much, if any formal support for either of your suggestions.. Also, the open source idea, it generally doesn't fly around here as everyone "has to get paid" for their services or it isn't worth their time..

i also don't believe some of the things you are looking for out of MySQL are available yet.. Isn't it ver. 5 that will finally support stored procedures? t may do it now, but I thought it was 5 that will support it.. Also, the external user information would make it easy to develop a ton of other things.. as well as be able to pass that information across different authentication protocols..

i really like the vBulletin software, but I really can't stand some of the attitudes from some of the people involved in the heirarchy of it all.. It makes it seem as if you must be loyal to them or worthy of their time before anyone anywhere invlves themselves in anything someone may ask.. there have been a few helpful folks, but most of them are few and far between anymore.. and with sites spreading out, people not caring and no one in the upper eschelon paying attention, it will only get worse..

that is also my 2 cents.. but I am not the only one here who thinks things are falling apart. and aparently, offering ideas to pull things together such as buro9 suggested, already get the drop kick right from the get go.. gg folks..