[Taxacom] Database collection software - Open Source

[Michael A. Ivie]

Xbio:D is excellent 
<https://plus.google.com/101268750407660322692/posts>, has been working 
the longest of any, and is unique in having an endowment to ensure it is 
maintained in the long term.  It is also Oracle based, also web-served 
and also ports to all the major data wharehouses.  The problem with 
databases that you download and then customize to your individual needs 
is that they are no longer universally compatible unless you have a 
full-time IT person to keep it that way. Also, it depends on what your 
goal is, as managing loans is different from serving data.

The idea that Oracle is dubious is philosophical, not practical. You do 
get what you pay for, freeware is worth every penny.


Mike


On 5/20/2015 2:23 PM, Erik Rijkers wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 22:07, Derek Sikes wrote:
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>> Here is a FAQs with information about Arctos,
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>> http://arctosdb.org/faq/
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> Oracle?
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> It seems dubious in this day and age to dump any money in the direction of Oracle for this sort of solution.  Yes, I know
> it's a great database but far too expensive. (btw, Mysql is also owned by Oracle.)
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> One would expect opensource solutions for this so central problem; isn't there such a opensource solution? (as a backend,
> PostgreSQL comes to mind)
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> Erik Rijkers
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