On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:49:22 Wayne Wilson wrote:
>John S. Gage wrote:
...
>> "oracle databases": we have found that oracle, perhaps like all other
>> trade secret operations, gives you "features" that are unique to them,
>> hoping that you will create legacy code. Any problems with this?
Hi Wayne and John,
It seems that both of you have extensive experience with Oracle. I just found out
about the newly open sourced SAP-DB which claims to be compatible with Oracle 7. It is
now available under LGPL (http://www.sapdb.org). It has extensive Java/JDBC and Python
integration and ongoing commercial support from a 100+ developer team at SAP
(Germany). It has a commercial installed-based of 500+ sites according to SAP.
I am working on a version of OIO Server that uses SAP-DB instead of PostgreSQL. A
Zope-to-SAP-DB adaptor has been released. Since SAP-DB is open source, it will not
have the proprietary trigger problems like Oracle.
What do you think of this product? Would SAP-DB be a reasonable platform for medical
record systems?
Best regards,
Andrew
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Andrew P. Ho, M.D.
OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes
TxOutcome.Org (hosting OIO Library #1)
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
University of California, Los Angeles
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