Agree wholeheartedly, Chris. I would suggest:
1st - Determining that level of interest, and where it's at.
Are people really interested in a GT.M for OS X,
or would clients on OS X that could converse
with GT.M and the RPC broker (on a Linux box
elsewhere) be enough? Or both?
Might be time for a "Hardhats-OSX" list.
2nd - If the interest for GT.M on OS X is sufficient, I'd first
straighten out the legalities before starting any
work or even looking for funding.
Chuck
On Apr 12, 2005, at 7:28 AM, Chris Richardson wrote:
Chuck;
I spoke with one of the folks who did the port of GT.M to MAC OS X
two
years ago and they said if there was enough interest and the status of
such
a port could be clarified, that they could do it again. We would love
to
set up a project on this and will need at least two separate
organizations
to be involved, one doing the port and one doing the testing. So if
there
are enough folks out there who would need to see this, they need to get
their interest known. This is a project which can be accomplished,
but we
have some things to get straight;
1) Level of interest?
2) Level of involvement (actual participation, monetary, review,
testing,
documentation, platforms, etc)?
3) Legal status of the resulting product? Still Open Source? under
what
license?
If we can get enough folks involved and committed, this could
happen in a
short time frame.
----- Original Message -----
From: "chuck5566" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Boston wrap-up.
Well hell . . .
On Apr 11, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Bhaskar, KS wrote:
Thanks for the clarification, Maury. Yes, Fidelity will be offering
Oracle (and perhaps DB2 someday) as an alternative database for our
Profile banking application. We are not replacing GT.M or dropping
support for GT.M, or "moving GT.M to Oracle". Indeed, it is my
opinion
that the majority of Profile customers will choose GT.M when they make
choices about configuring Profile, but ultimately it is all about the
customer's choice rather than our choice. Since database
configuration
is managed at the level of the Profile application code layered on top
of GT.M, the topic is completely irrelevant to VistA on GT.M.
I don't recollect anything from the VistA Community Meeting about GT.M
being ported to Mac OS X by anyone in the user community. Except for
running it on Linux in an emulated PC, porting to Mac OS X from the
open
source port to x86 GNU/Linux would be a non-trivial effort.
-- Bhaskar
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 10:59 -0500, Maury Pepper wrote:
Two items got blurred together. There is a possibility that GT.M
will be ported to MAC OS X. On the recent GT.M survey, it was one of
the items one could vote for as a future enhancement. Also, Brian
Lord and Jeff Abbott did this port about two years ago but the work
was lost when the laptop used for development was "redeployed" for
other uses. He says they can do it again when time allows.
The other item is that Bhaskar mentioned that Fidelity's banking
product would be available in the future with an optional Oracle
backend database along with the current GT.M version. Institutions
will have a choice which version they want based on their needs and
the performance specs.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy Anthracite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Ignacio Valdes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Boston wrap-up.
Ignacio, I think it will be ported to the MAC, not Oracle. At the
meeting I
heard two programmers had done it a few years ago and no longer
have their
code, so the hope is to do it again.
On Sunday 10 April 2005 07:54 pm, Jim Self wrote:
Ignacio,
In the article you wrote: "announcement that GT.M will be ported to
Oracle".
Is that an error? If not, what does it mean?
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