Vincent Puglia — Thu, 23 Mar 2000 19:01:00 +0000

Hi Peter,

Haven't joined yet. Went back & read up some -- founded in 98; main page last edit - 7/9/99; lots of unfinished pages, bad links, and poor editing (typos, mispellings, etc.)
Makes one wonder.
At any rate, the link is the same. I snipped some of the comments (below). Oh, they also have an unfinished page titled "Why flatfiles are Inadequate" or somesuch. They seem to want to push many2many sql.

From openDB home page:

The OpenDB Alliance is...committed to promoting a Open Source...structure as an industry-standard...data for multiple applications will...be fully accessible from one resource; new software will work better with existing Databases...
...the OpenDB Alliance is providing free resources and tools...publishing our specification for the database model's structure definition...granting members a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license to the documentaion and executable prototypes in the OpenDB libraries, which allows for the designing and creating of databases using MANY-to-MANY relationships.
...General membership is free.

I tried viewing some of the "examples" -- bad links.
Will be emailing the openDB guy who approached me. Will keep you advised.

Vinny

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Peter J. Boettcher — Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:37:00 +0000

Vincent,

This is the first I've heard of them. Seems interesting, I tried the forum link but it didn't work. If you join keep us updated.

Regards,
Peter J. Boettcher