[foxylad]

SQLite is used for small and embedded systems, which (if successful) can have very long lifetimes. If you were building something like an ATM for instance, you would be very sensible to sign a 35-year support contract for a crucial part of your system.

[delinka]

Have you seen an ATM? They're running Windows & SQL Server now. Microsoft isn't offering 35yr support contracts for Windows.

This is only partially sarcastic.

[bch]

Imagine a company like Boeing then, which does have a 35 year shelf-life on their products.

[SteveNuts]

Pretty soon we'll see aircraft running Kafka, microservices, elasticsearch, etc.

All running in kubernetes.

[StavrosK]

At least that way if the plane crashes you can just restart it.

[dotancohen]

Restart just the microservice that crashed!

  $ sudo service port-flaps restart

[mst]

"That's not the sort of 'above the clouds' we had in mind"

[linkmotif]

My stack

[chungy]

Microsoft has nowhere near the quality, security and bug-fix track record, documentation coverage, nor testsuite coverage that SQLite offers. There's simply no way they can possibly provide such support.

[ZenoArrow]

There are products that Microsoft offers long support contracts for. To give an example, EOL for XP Embedded is in April 2019, which means XP in all its forms would've been supported for about 18 years.