Tuesday, October 3, 2006

“All your base are belong to us” – 1and1.com’s version…

by Michael Sheehan on October 3, 2006

in General, Open Source

My grumble factor about one of my hosting providers is getting higher. I have had a series of exchanges with them about the possibility of upgrading their mySQL servers to one that is more current (and one that supports activeCollab and SugarCRM). The saga continues…

First, they sent me a link to what versions they currently have installed (which I already knew from a previous support exchange but it was nice to have listed). Then they sent me this cryptic reply to a question that I sent to them regarding if it would be possible to upgrade in the future.

Dear Michael,

Thank you for contacting us.

We cannot change it or update it.
That will be then the version for the MySQL database as of the period.

[click to continue…]

{ 2 comments }

activeCollab releases 0.7RC1…but 1and1.com refuses to comply!

by Michael Sheehan on October 3, 2006

in General, Open Source

One of the more promising OpenSource apps that I have been following is that of activeCollab (aC for short) has posted the first Release Candidate for their next version. I mentioned this program earlier as a direct competitor to BaseCamp. The new features look great (from reading them). Unfortunately, my hosting provider (1and1.com) has a version of mySQL that will not support the 0.7RC1 version.

I have sent a support email to 1and1.com since this is the second application that I cannot use with them (the first being SugarCRM).

More to come on this thread hopefully…

{ 0 comments }