[Taxacom] Database collection software

[Eric Gouda]

MySQL is great and yes it is owned by Oracle, but if the open source 
community will be in conflict with Oracle, there will be a new 
development like we have seen with OpenOffice and LibereOffice. I think 
continuity is guaranteed.

I'm not sure what Plant record applications are available for this 
platform, we are using our own developed Taxasoft database interface, 
that is available for others and it is very flexible for all kind of 
additional functionality.

Eric (BG Utrecht)

taxacom-request at mailman.nhm.ku.edu schreef op 21-5-2015 om 19:00:
> Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 22:23:18 +0200 From: "Erik Rijkers" 
> <er at xs4all.nl> To: "Derek Sikes" <dssikes at alaska.edu> Cc: 
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> <cgeorgia at biol.uoa.gr>, "taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu, 
> <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Database 
> collection software - Open Source Message-ID: 
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> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 On Wed, May 20, 2015 
> 22:07, Derek Sikes wrote:
>> >Here is a FAQs with information about Arctos,
>> >
>> >http://arctosdb.org/faq/
>> >
> Oracle?
>
> 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.)
>
> One would expect opensource solutions for this so central problem; isn't there such a opensource solution? (as a backend,
> PostgreSQL comes to mind)
>
>
> Erik Rijkers


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