Re: Repository services and budget

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

"Rick H. Wesson" writes:
> > What you need here, chiefly, is a fairly ordinary database, like
> > Oracle. The problem is by database management standards a fairly low
> > level of load -- we aren't talking about millions of transactions per
> > day. The database is also fairly small by modern standards.
> 
> If CORE used Oracle then all the Registrys would have to purchase Oracle
> client libraries.

Not necessarily. The application with knowledge of the database itself
could run on the database machine and communicate via an open
protocol. Other methods are also possible.

> I dont care what the CORE database is run on, but don't you
> think there is a way to abstract this one level so that each registry
> doesn't have to purchase an Oracle license?

Sure. Thats not the point. The only point I was making was that this
is a small, well understood database problem. We don't even have many
tables, high transaction rates or lots of data. This is a cakewalk
compared to many things I've seen done.

Perry
Speaking for myself, not for the IAHC in an official capacity.