If someone would like to develop a SIMS/CMIS equivalent in MySQL I would be happy to market it to schools. Regards, Grahame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Grahame Leon-Smith, Principal Consultant Tele-School Education Consultants Tel 01932-874067 Fax 01932-874068 mailto:grahame.leon-smith@tele-school.org HAVE A LOOK AT OUR WEBSITE AT < http://www.tele-school.org> 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN EDUCATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: Tim Pizey [mailto:timp@paneris.org] Sent: 18 September 2002 17:54 To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] School admin: Microsoft only? On Wednesday 18 September 2002 14:37, Gary Stainburn wrote:
On Wednesday 18 Sep 2002 3:17 pm, Christopher Dawkins wrote:
East Sussex are looking into CMIS, mainly driven by a group of interested schools who wish to move away from SIMS.
We bought CMIS last year: it is definitely by far the best system there is.
(Against an extremely poor field, that is, and if you have oodles of money. I reckon we've spent twice a long trying to adapt CMIS to our needs than we would have spent writing a complete new system from scratch with MySQL)
Just think how much money you could have saved if you'd used PostgreqSQL then.
(Sorry, I couldn't help it, I'm that way out today)
What is the spec of this system? What are the chances of forming a purchasing group to fund my developing an OS system? <plug> Were I to address it I would use http://www.melati.org/, which is db agnostic. </plug> cheers Tim Pizey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.386 / Virus Database: 218 - Release Date: 09/09/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.386 / Virus Database: 218 - Release Date: 09/09/2002