Re: Alpha testers wanted for new jBASE/T24/Oracle file system

[Jim Idle]

Kevin Powick wrote: On Mar 10, 6:21 pm, Jim Idle <j...@temporal-wave.com> wrote: I think I have thought of everything and am always surprised when I realize that I haven't ;-) Does this apply to the product as well? :-) Nah - I have thought of everything ;-). Rather I should say that having watched how people need to use the system for 17 years or so, I think I have a good grasp of the pain points ;-) This is essentially what the J5 file system was gong to be before I left jBASE. It does sound good, though we're not in a position to test. Will this always be a 3rd party solution or do you envision jBASE licensing the technology to be a standard feature of a future version? I am not against it going in to the standard product by any means, but of course I am trying to make a little money by producing something that everyone really needs. Since you mention licensing, is this just for code "escrow" or is the product designed in such a way that it can be adapted for use by other MV vendors? For escrow basically - some companies will feel a lot better about having the source code available to them - I don't intend for the source code license to be prohibitively expensive. I would produce a UniVerse or Unidata version but those products only have interfaces to read from them as their internals are spread about like road kill and don't support reading and writing to external systems, so I can't really do that. I did take a look at some other systems, such as QM, but that product just isn't real world enough for me to want to put my name to it (apologies to any QM fans but it's like stepping back in time 25 years - that's the problem when there are too few people working on something.) Pity you don't have time to test it as I think you would be just the kind of person I would like to give it a try. Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Please read the posting guidelines at: http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific to Globus/T24 To post, send email to jBASE@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to jbase-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---