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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Katabase and libgda (from gnome-db)
From:       Shawn Gordon <shawn-gordon () home ! com>
Date:       2000-09-09 14:26:33
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You know, this is really strange - we sent an announcement yesterday
about KDB before this original email came through, and the emails are
really getting staggered between this list and the kde-devel list.  no
one at my company except for me has even gotten our KDB announcement
yet.

In any case, here is the current situation as Katabase is in fact
stalled.  See our KDB announcement, or come to our web site and check
under Projects (www.thekompany.com) for the KDB project.  KDB is similar
to GNOME-DB in that it is a data access layer for KDE (as opposed to
GNOME).  It is this phase that we will be working with the KSql folks on
development as it has global benefits, imagine putting a python based
mail merge script into your KWord application that generates form
letters and addresses them from your MySQL database, as an example.

In any case, the structure is such that the GNOME-DB interface could be
written with relative ease as a plug-in, and you could then take
advantage of the CORBA architecture in GNOME-DB, which isn't in KDB.  We
would be happy to work on that in a few months when both projects are
closer to their ultimate goal :).

Finally, we are also working on a light weight personal DBMS system ala`
MS Access named Rekall.  Rekall will use the KDB layer to access it's
data repositories, and while it will have a native DBMS, it can access
any DBMS that a plug-in exists for for KDB.

The really cool thing that is already available, is a plug-in for
Konqueror that allows you to browse and do basic management of
databases, currently there is a plug in for MySQL.

Hope that explains it a bit :).

Best,
Shawn Gordon
President
theKompany.com

Jost Schenck wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> don't know if the right ones already received your mail, as we're currently
> switching mailing lists and I don't know if Shawn already subscribed. Shawn
> Gordon of theKompany said they want to work on a database project (the former
> Katabase has stalled, as far as I know).
> I think his address is shawn@thekompany.com , or you'll find it on
> www.thekompany.com.
> 
> > Thus, we'll help a little bit in the cooperation
> > between the GNOME and KDE projects, specially after all the controversy
> > talked about in the last weeks, which IMO, does not exist in GNOME/KDE
> > developers minds.
> 
> True :)
> -Jost.
> 
> >
> > so, what do you think?

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