Thread: Would this project be of interest to anyone?

I've been working on a new project using Postgresql and wanted a little
public input on it.

The goal is a complete office automation package using free software.  I
think that if you wanted to use the buzzword of the day you could call it
an ERP package but I'm not 100% sure.  You can get more info at

www.math.ksu.edu/~jamest/obe

Would anyone find this kind of a system useful or am I busy recreating
something freely available on the net and thus wasting my time.  I'm
interested in any feedback people may have.  Thanks!

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James Thompson    138 Cardwell Hall  Manhattan, Ks   66506    785-532-0561
Kansas State University                          Department of Mathematics
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Clark...you out there anywhere?  How does/would this tie into what you are
working on?  Or is it an alternative?  From checking out James' web site
and from talking with you, they sound like they would complement each
other, but am not sure...


On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, James Thompson wrote:

>
> I've been working on a new project using Postgresql and wanted a little
> public input on it.
>
> The goal is a complete office automation package using free software.  I
> think that if you wanted to use the buzzword of the day you could call it
> an ERP package but I'm not 100% sure.  You can get more info at
>
> www.math.ksu.edu/~jamest/obe
>
> Would anyone find this kind of a system useful or am I busy recreating
> something freely available on the net and thus wasting my time.  I'm
> interested in any feedback people may have.  Thanks!
>
> ->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->---<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<
> James Thompson    138 Cardwell Hall  Manhattan, Ks   66506    785-532-0561
> Kansas State University                          Department of Mathematics
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>
>
>

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org

James Thompson wrote:
>
> I've been working on a new project using Postgresql and wanted a little
> public input on it.
<OBE project>

You may want to take a look at Zope (www.zope.org) It's a Python based,
GPLed web/object infrastructure thing. Think of it as a cross between
PHP/ColdFusion and  a persistent CGI/ASP application server. It plays
well with Postgresql in my hands (so far) and has an active community
(and company) behind it (Digital Creations: www.digicool.com).

As to using PostgreSQL in a general office automation environment, the
biggest snag I think you'll hit is the 8K limit on tuples, and the
insufficiency of large objects (lo) that's seen so many postings to the
lists lately. Although, apparently, the win32 ODBC driver handles lo's
automatically reasonably well (I remember someone mentioning it being
cool to drag-n-drop big old Word docs and animations into their
PostgreSQL db via MS-Access) Perhaps for the limited case (not millions
of records above 8k, just a few), the existing implementation is
sufficent.

Ross (parenthetically speaking this morning, for some reason)
--
Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm@rice.edu>
NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
Computer and Information Technology Institute
Rice University, 6100 S. Main St.,  Houston, TX 77005