Bud will be offline for the next couple of days so he won't be replying to
these postings.....if no one objects perhaps I can entice someone from the
computer science lab at Ericsson to respond to the postings....would this be
useful....I must confess I don't know enough about this domain to comment on
it....so I'll just throw some "christians to the lions" and see what
happens.....said with a mischievous grin....I just love seeing my inbox full
of passionate discussion I don't understand.....like watching Jerry Springer
with the volume turned off....(my apologies for the North American-centric
joke)
Joseph Dal Molin
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416.818.9156 Cellular
www.openhealth.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Beale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: Erlang/Mnesia
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>
> Jim Self wrote:
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> > All of the features of the Mnesia DBMS listed above are extremely
> > interesting so I took a brief look at the documentation at the link you
> > gave. Unfortunately, it appears to have a couple of fatal flaws as a
> > potential platform for something like our HIS and, I think, for
healthcare
> > software in general: 1) inefficient handling of text
> > (http://www.erlang.org/faq/x299.html#AEN309), 2) limitation of database
size
> > to 4GB (http://www.erlang.org/faq/x1084.html#AEN1103).
>
> Erlang doesn't look very OO either, unless there was a section about
classes etc
> that I completely missed in the online documentation....
>
> - thomas beale
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