===== Original Message From Tim Pizey ===== Grahame and all,

I am experienced in collaborative, distributed development of software.

I would be happy to host a CVS tree and development lists at http://www.paneris.org/

I would propose writing the system using http://www.melati.org/ (java) which is DB agnostic and works with MySQL, Postgresql and any other JDBC compliant db which implements transactions.

I would have to rely on somone who has access to the existing system for requirements and data design, and I could not devote an enormous amount of time without being paid.

Anyone else interested?

cheers Tim Pizey

I think the idea is to start small. My personal prefence would be to use web based applications, but that can get messy :(

On Thursday 19 September 2002 14:30, Grahame Leon-Smith at Free Computers wrote:

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If someone would like to develop a SIMS/CMIS equivalent in MySQL I would be happy to market it to schools.

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-----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:

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On Wednesday 18 Sep 2002 3:17 pm, Christopher Dawkins wrote:

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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

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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

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