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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Next generation of KOrganizer / Call for help: (fwd)
From:       Michael Koch <m_koch () bigfoot ! de>
Date:       1999-05-04 8:46:52
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Am Tue, 04 May 1999 schrieb pbrown@redhat.com:
>On Tue, 4 May 1999, Van wrote:
>
>> MySQL seems to be the best choice at present.  Any old database is a
>> decent offering, Peter, but, if anyone's been watching the MySQL effort
>> (www.tcx.se); it's arguably as impressive as the kde effort on it's on
>> merits.  Would welcome any rebuttals.
>
>No way.
>
>1. not able to use freely in commercial setting
>2. heavy.
>
>I think using a small lightweight, open source as the reference database
>is a good thing, with support for better, more scalable databases/backends
>part of the design goal (pluggable LDAP would be a real coup de etat,
>because that is really where the world is moving.  Having LDAP support in
>KDE would be a great selling point.  Trust me).

Wait a few month and you will see Katabase. This will be a middleware to
several database systems. Each database system will have it's own plugin to the
general data access module. There will exist several modules for working:
Formeditor, Reporteditor, ...
We want to make it the KOffice-database system, because it should be very
flexible. 

>---
>  Preston Brown                                    Systems Engineer
>  pbrown@redhat.com                                Red Hat Software, Inc.

CU
Michael Koch


student of computer science at
university of applied sciences
Darmstadt, Germany

KDE Enthusiast, fan and developer
Projects: KPat, KImage and Katabase
Documentation of KOM/OpenParts

mail: m_koch@bigfoot.de
www: http://heaven.riednet.wh.tu-darmstadt.de/~mkoch

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