Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (92 mails)

[Tim Pizey <timp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
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cheers
Tim Pizey