Re: [school-discuss] MySQL in classroom

[Adam Crosby <adam.crosby@alanne.com>]

Cameron Miller wrote:

> Adam Crosby wrote:
>
> > Cameron Miller wrote:
> >   Sybase is the back end
> >
> > > used by Novell NDS, Novell Groupwise still uses the old Perfect 
> > > Office database system, and OpenLDAP runs on Berkeley DB.
> >
> >
> > FYI - Sybase is not the backend for NDS or eDirectory.  Novell uses 
> > 'FLAIM' (FLexible and Adaptable Information Manager) as the backend 
> > database.  FLAIM was originally used (if memory serves) by BYU in 
> > Provo for it's Geneology database, and was adpated by Wordperfect for 
> > use with Wordperfect Groupwise.  Novell bought WP (thus acquiring 
> > Groupwise and FLAIM), and has since invested a significant amount of 
> > development effort into it.  FLAIM is the backend DB running 
> > eDirectory and Groupwise now.  NDS (v7 and below of the Novell 
> > Directory product) used an in-house database called 'RECMAN'.
> > Here's some more info if you want:
> > http://developer.novell.com/research/sections/netmanage/dirprimer/2001/october/p011001.htm 
> > http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=98158
> Thanks,
>
> I think it's Novell's ZEN that uses Sybase. Didn't know the old word 
> perfect stuff was running eDirectory as well as Groupwise.
>
> - cameron
I wouldn't say its the 'old wordperfect stuff' exactly - there have been 
a *tremendous* amount of upgrades and updates to the code (multimaster 
vector-based replication, filtered replication, etc).
ZEN 4 (and I think ZEN 6.5 - the latest version that now runs on Linux) 
uses Sybase for it's Inventory tracking componenent only.  The policies 
and everything else are stored in eDirectory.

To bring this more on-topic for this thread - pgsql and mysql both run 
natively on Netware 6.5 (and with some work, on Netware 5.x/6.0) :)