Re: xxd -i vs DIY Was: C23 thoughts and opinions

On Thu, 30 May 2024 16:09:00 +0200, David Brown wrote:

For new systems that don't have the
legacy requirements, customers will wonder why they should buy one of
these when something like PostgreSQL is free, has most of the features
(including its own unique ones), and will happily scale to the huge
majority of database needs.

Open-Source software offers its own unique capabilities. For example,
Microsoft Office offers (at extra cost) that Access database, which has
limitations that make SQLite seem powerful. (OK, so SQLite *is* pretty
powerful.)

LibreOffice Base has an equivalent DBMS backend. But it can also interface
to databases in SQLite, MySQL/MariaDB and no doubt others I haven’t tried.
Though you do have to pay the $0 extra monthly fee for the “Pro” version.