RE: Database language

["Bill Hudson" <bhudson at lancasterlibraries dot org>]

Hi Zoltan,
I thought the same thing about the mysql migration after IUG last year, but
my sales rep checked for me and says that's not the case. There are numerous
supporting databases in the system that are/will be converted, but the core
dbase will not be converted. I was not happy to hear that as we would love
SQL compliance without having to pay for Mr. Ellison's sailing hobby.

If anyone has heard anything different from a reliable source, I would
definitely like to know about it.
Thanks,
BH

 
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Bill Hudson, Manager
Information Technology Services
Library System of Lancaster County
1866 Colonial Village Lane, Suite 107
Lancaster, PA 17601
V. 717.207.0500 F.717.207.0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org [mailto:innopac-
> bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of zoltan dot tomory at mobot dot org
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 3:08 PM
> To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
> Subject: RE: Database language
> 
> Future plans seem to be that Millennium will be converted to a MySQL
> database based system over something like a five or ten  year timeframe,
> phasing out the existing proprietary database/database language, if my
> recollections from IUG'04 are accurate.
> 
> Writing their own database--that's gutsy!
> Changing a database--equally gutsy!
> 
> One thing from the technical information was not clear to me: The Java
> Virtual Machine is platform independent & runs on a variety of platforms
> including Windows, Mac, and a bunch of others. So how come the Java
> clients
> typical of Millennium don't do Mac? The purpose of the JVM is to translate
> Java code to machine code of whatever platform there exists a JVM for with
> complete integrity & my understanding is that Sun, author of Java, has
> suffered to keep it so.
> 
> Zoltan Tomory
> 

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