Re: [Evolution] CALL FOR SPONSORSHIP: The Open Group Ware Project

["Benny Li" <bennyli cory eecs berkeley edu>]

can somebody tell me how i can get off this mailing list?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lloyd Llewellyn" <subscr001 twilight-systems com>
To: <tom_cooper bigfoot com>
Cc: "Evo-List" <evolution ximian com>; "OO-List" <discuss openoffice org>;
"Glue-List" <glue gnu org>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Evolution] CALL FOR SPONSORSHIP: The Open Group Ware Project


> > I'm no DB geek by any definition, but has anyone thinking about this
> > considered what/how the database ought to work?  Is it possible to
> > implement a solution built on top of MySQL or Postgres, or something
> > else that might scale well?
>
> My original conception was to make the back end pluggable, given the S
> on OGS.  There should be a mapping layer between the goupware
> application services in the middle and the back end storage.  You should
> be able to swap in DB's.  If an organization already has Oracle running,
> OGS should be able to store its data in Oracle.
>
>
> > Let's pick an attainable scope of features, determine minimum functional
> > requirements for those features, and then get started.  We need not
> > define a huge feature set initially, but we need to understand the
> > architectural consequenses of decisions made when implementing those
> > features.
>
> Absolutely.  We need to define the functions, define an architecture
> they fit into, then address each function within that architecture.  It
> doesn't mean you have to have a complete blueprint before you start, but
> you have to resolve interdependencies and make sure one module's
> implementation doesn't conflict with another's (eventual)
> implementation.  By just jumping in you waste time and end up having to
> either throw away code or force subsequent code to accommodate mistakes
> made in the first round.
>
> I'll start a thread called "What Is OGS?".  It's time for us to start
> sharing knowledge about the different parts of the elephant.
>
>
>
>
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