Re: Database language

[Marc Truitt <mtruitt at uh dot edu>]

hi bill and zoltan,

has this ever been pushed as an enhancement request?  is there any 
reason it could not be?

how about a virtual show-of-hands from those sites on this list that 
would be seriously interested seeing Innovative migrate to an 
open-source SQL-compliant back end?

UH would certainly support such an effort.

- mt

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Bill Hudson wrote:
> 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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> > -----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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