Dabble DB shuts down on May 18, 2011
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Dabble DB shuts down on May 18, 2011
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Re: Dabble DB shuts down on May 18, 2011
#2#dickbar, the API/client controversy, and shutting down DabbleDB. Not sure if I've seen one company burn through as much goodwill in one week as Twitter just did.
Re: Dabble DB shuts down on May 18, 2011
#3#dickbar, the API/client controversy, and shutting down DabbleDB. Not sure if I've seen one company burn through as much goodwill in one week as Twitter just did.
Yes, although the company was acquired less than a year ago -- http://blog.dabbledb.com/2010/06/140character-dabbling.html
Re: Dabble DB shuts down on May 18, 2011
#4I get the feeling that dabble DB never truly solved the "excel being used as database" problem and that is why they didn't last.
I still think spreadsheets work really well for storing data (if you don't have time/money to imnplement a RDMS), plus now with google docs and dropbox there are enough ways to sync the data with other users.
Re: Dabble DB shuts down on May 18, 2011
#5#dickbar, the API/client controversy, and shutting down DabbleDB. Not sure if I've seen one company burn through as much goodwill in one week as Twitter just did.
The Dabble people themselves practically announced that they'd be doing this a year ago. They said they'd give notice. They gave notice. What do you want from them?
Re: Dabble DB shuts down on May 18, 2011
#6It would be better for startups in general if it was customary to open-source your solution if you shut down.
Re: Dabble DB shuts down on May 18, 2011
#7Can someone do a tldr of why Dabble is shutting down?
Re: Dabble DB shuts down on May 18, 2011
#8I get the feeling that dabble DB never truly solved the "excel being used as database" problem and that is why they didn't last. I still think spreadsheets work really well for storing data (if you don't have time/money to imnplement a RDMS), plus now with google docs and dropbox there are enough ways to sync the data with other users.
EditGrid is still around and free and unlike Google Spreadsheet's broken importXML function (see: http://goo.gl/fWYDi) it has a web_xpath function that mostly works.
Also worth noting DabbleDB is one of the (few?) relatively well-known projects implemented in Squeak/Seaside as discussed here: http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&t...
Re: Dabble DB shuts down on May 18, 2011
#9#dickbar, the API/client controversy, and shutting down DabbleDB. Not sure if I've seen one company burn through as much goodwill in one week as Twitter just did.
The Dabble people themselves practically announced that they'd be doing this a year ago. They said they'd give notice. They gave notice. What do you want from them?
Exactly, you haven't even been able to make a new database for a year now and it takes about 30 seconds to export your data to excel. I really don't see what the big deal is here.
Re: Dabble DB shuts down on May 18, 2011
#10Can someone do a tldr of why Dabble is shutting down?
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