Re: [school-discuss] Help!

[Dominique Broeglin <broeglin@essi.fr>]

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 16:55, ptietjens wrote:
> Anyone out there using commercial open source (free as in free speech) 
> software in their administrative functions?
> 
> Specifically, I've just been told that after a year of deciding to ditch M$, 
> our district will be purchasing two (two!)  major pieces of software running 
> with M$ SQL backends;  financial and student management programs.
> 
> I'd take DB2, Oracle, whatever!  At this point, I'm not even concerned about 
> open source (though that would solve some of the headaches we've had with our 
> existing apps for these purpsoses) as long as it isn't Microsoft!

Hello,

Here a ESSI we use SapDB as a database engine and some custom made
applications based on (JBoss, Apache Ant/Struts/Xalan, Jetty, etc...).
For the issue at hand SapDB can be an interesting replacement for a
commercial database as it was initialy based on AdabasD and was buyed by
SAP in order to put it under GPL. 

Cheers,

Dom