David,

Interesting.   Amoung the growing circle of open source DBMS's what
drew you to this one?    The Oracle compatibility?

The website says that:
"SAP DB goes beyond relational database technology by offering object
orientation"
I didn't find any information of the OO aspects in my quick survey of
the web site.

On the lighter side ...  From the "more things change the more they
stay the same" department:

"SAP believes that times have changed, that databases are becoming
part of the basic technology infrastructure, and as such, they need
not be proprietary or complex."
Not complex eh?    "Since mid-1997, SAP has made considerable
investments into SAP DB, which is maintained and continuously enhanced
by a dedicated team of about 100 SAP developers."  If 350 some man
*years*  of work doesn't relate to complexity somewhere I wonder what
software SAP would call complex???

- Cortlandt

"David Thatcher" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
news:99gbp7013ta@enews1.newsguy.com...
> 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...)
>
>
> >Gavin Scott wrote:
> >> We've actually been investigating the possibility of offering
support for
> >> PostreSQL on MPE since Mark announced that it had a good chance
of
> becoming
> >> available.
> >
> >I expect to make the the frozen source code diffs available this
afternoon.
> >:-)
> >
> >...snip...
> >
> >> PostgreSQL has a chance to be one of the first really big Open
Source
> >> successes for MPE, in that there are opportunities to make it
much more
> "MPE
> >> like" in terns of reliability and performance by getting it to
use some
> of
> >> the same MPE facilities that make Image what it is.  This would
include
> >> teaching it to use the Transaction Manager, etc.
> >>
> >> It might also be possible to hook it up to Image the way Allbase
is, thus
> >> providing a free replacement for Allbase which is more up to date
and
> >> perhaps more actively maintained.  There are a lot of quite
interesting
> >> possibilities.
> >
> >And the great thing about it being Open Source is that the people
who would
> >like to see those kinds of changes can go ahead and make them.
People are
> MORE
> >than welcome to modify & enhance anything that comes from
bixby.org!
> >--
> >[log in to unmask]
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electrons...
> >
>