On Saturday 17 November 2007 12:42:26 am Heling Yao wrote: > Actually I'm thinking of so-called BI apps (such as pentaho), and I'd > say they're reporting tools in disguise (or for marketing). In > addition to being a framwork and IDE, if we makes one or two general > purpose business apps based on Dabo (eg JasperReport), that'd be great > for Dabo's marketing and future development
Interesting thought. Ed has always resisted the idea of providing a DBA type app for supported backends. And I agree with him. After all there are some very good DBA apps for all the database engines. However, there are very few open source reporting tools. Issues: 1. Each of our supported backends requires a different interface driver. Currently, Dabo does not provide the actual drivers - users download them and install them. This not any different from what Java users are required to do. 2. Reporting tools normally are NOT stand-alone app's. Pentaho is a very large BI app that just happens to have a open source reporting tool. 3. Paul, has a toddler work etc. Who would lead, write, and prepare the project for release. I think I could write some of the interface but I know nothing about how to deploy. This is not a small project most users would expect enterprise-class reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining. The presentation (UI) layer would need to access email, office suites (spreadsheets, text doc's). Just adding the business logic sounds like a very big deal to write. I like the idea of promoting Dabo via an app. But I wonder if the app will over shadow Dabo. For example, even today some think AppWizard is what Dabo is all about. -- John Fabiani _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/dabo-users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
