Thomas, >> What do you do when your object-oriented application falls >> over ? Here, an open source application/database is even more >> important than in plain relational DBs. > There should be sufficient redundancy in the application to enable a > recovery. No, I mean when your application is dead, your vendor's dead and you don't have the source. Isn't it much easier to extract the data from a RDBMS or do I just not know enough about how objects are stored in OODBMS' ?
IOW: Is there something like the PostgreSQL shell "psql" that lets me easily browse my data in an OODBMS no matter what application/programming language put it there ? > Interesting example from the legal world: > 1)Patient has never had a broken right arm > 2)Patient enters a nursing room > 3)Patient remains for six months > 4)Upon discharge Patient has experienced a broken right arm > 5)No entry in the record regarding the event and perhaps subsequent > treatment > > Hence, regardless of the competence of the record-based system there will > be situations where some things will remain the same. Hm, I understand the content of this paragraph. I am not sure, however, what you wanted to say with it. Did you want to say that it can happen that events do not get recorded ? Well, that's sure true but what wisdom does knowing that buy us ? Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
