On 02/01/2011 06:46 PM, Simon Cropper wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Thanks for all the links and replies. They all have provided valuable
> insight into various options.
>
> I will endeavour to go away and play around with these things.
>
> Please accept that I am not being argumentative relating the options
> proposed (e.g. using PostgreSQL+PostGIS) it is just that changing to
> this model requires a complete rethink of my companies data storage
> model, project management, client interactions, etc. Not something that
> can be addressed lightly.
>
> Moving to an open source OS and software has already created problems
> for an industry lost in the past*. Moving too fast generally see one
> standing alone as a pariah rather than an innovator.
>
> * a good example is a recent move from a relational database model for
> storage of plant and animal records in the state to a flat file where
> taxonomic, biological, distributional data is repeated over and over for
> every record. Apparently the relational database model is too confusing
> for other biologists in the state.
That is just wrong:) I am a biologist and the relational model makes
perfect sense to me as follows the tree structure of taxonomy.
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
etc
If that is not parent/child/grandchild I don't what is.
>
> Cheers Simon
>
--
Adrian Klaver
[email protected]
_______________________________________________
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/[email protected]
