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[Tim Soderstrom <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 9, 2012, at 2:57 PM, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Paul McCullagh
> <paul.mccullagh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Tim, Brian,
>> 
>> PBXT is currently not under development, as I have had to turn my attention to a new project.
>> 
>> I have spent the last year developing version 3.0 of TeamDrive (http://www.teamdrive.com/). The Beta version has just been released. TD3 is a complete new development, so it has been a lot of work!
>> 
>> However, I still have plans for PBXT.
>> 
>> Recently I have pushed BSD headers to the source code. What is missing is an API so that the engine can be embedded in an application.
>> 
>> But, the bottom line is, I cannot do it all myself anymore.
>> 
>> If there is interest. It will have to show itself.
>> 
>> BTW: The web-site state is the result of a disk crash (and problems with the backup!!). A real bummer!
> 
> Are you hoping to move forward with PBXT independent of MySQL? That
> would be interesting. I wish we (the community) had done more to help
> you with PBXT. You did a lot of great work there.
> 
> But MySQL engines are definitely less interesting than cloud-based
> storage right now: TeamDrive, box.net, dropbox.

Perhaps but I assume you're not running Facebook on DropBox :) Certainly there is still interesting use cases for RDBMS's and the engines therein. InnoDB has caught up so much that PBXT no longer has the edge, but I still find it very interesting. Were Paul to have the resources InnoDB does, I suspect PBXT would be significant.