Totally off-the-wall, but when I saw the earlier post alluding to someone
working on SAPDB, I looked at the web site and got the impression that not
all of the source was available, that SAP still controls some part of it.
Apparently I'm wrong.

Actually, here is the really off-the-wall part: If SAPDB could be ported to
MPE and somehow tied to XM, then assuming good performance (admittedly a big
assumption), I wonder if SAP might be interested in revisiting the discarded
effort to port SAP to MPE? The two keys are probably XM and performance. The
SAP kernel is relatively small and has been ported to Linux since the
ill-fated earlier attempt to port to MPE, probably making a port of the
kernel to MPE easier. The SAP kernel is a virtual machine complete with
pooled processes, a dispatcher and scheduler, that sits on top of the host
OS. SAP the application is interpreted ABAP code stored in the database.

Ah well, reality is starting to intrude - back to work.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Thatcher [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 12:10 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] SAP DB [was: PostgreSQL ...)
>
>
> Shortly before the original thread started, I was in the
> early stages of
> porting SAP DB (www.sapdb.org).  This is my first port to the
> HP e3000 so
> it's taking a bit longer than the seasoned porters:-)  If anyone is
> interested in helping, please let me know.
>
> Once we have a stable environment we will post the URL.
>
> Regards,
>
> David Thatcher
> Advanced Network Systems, Inc.
> 7 Charles Court, Suite 14
> Annandale, Nj 08801
> (908) 231-5342
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Friday, March 23, 2001 2:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] PostgreSQL (Was: new toy...)