Ron,

Please keep us all updated.  I believe this would be a really good
thing for the community-at-large.

On 1/5/06, Ron Teitelbaum <Ron at usmedrec.com> wrote:
> Simon,
>
> I finally reached the people at Caché and discussed integration with them.
> They are working on putting together a group of people to discuss the
> possibility of integration and are planning on a call later next week.  They
> understand our interest in exploring writing drivers and possibly doing
> projection classes to generate Smalltalk objects similar to their work in
> Java.
>
> They are also discussing integration with squeak and VistA for my company.
>
> I will keep you informed on my progress, but if you would like to join in
> the conversations please let me know.
>
> Ron Teitelbaum
> President / Principal Software Engineer
> US Medical Record Specialists
> Ron at USMedRec.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> > bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Simon Kirk
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 7:28 AM
> > To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> > Subject: Re: Caché Database System Integration With Squeak
> >
> > Hi again Ron.
> >
> > Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
> >
> > >Simon,
> > >
> > >Thanks for the response.  The VA (US Veterans Administration) uses Caché
> > for
> > >their medical record system and I would like to attach squeak to that
> > >system.
> > >
> > >
> > Nice to know that there's a large-scale organisation like that using
> > Caché - you guys will carry considerable clout for getting them to
> > change things if needed :)
> >
> > >It really concerns me that you are having this problem with ODBC on
> > Linux.
> > >Have you considered their XML interface, or do you think that would be
> > way
> > >to slow?
> > >
> > >
> > I must confess I didn't know there was an XML interface. However, I
> > suspect that it may be a reasonable way to go given a fast enough link
> > between the client and server machines, and fast enough client and
> > server hardware. Of course I have no quantifiable metrics for this, but
> > now you've mentioned this interface I'll probably take a look at it.
> >
> > >I was hoping to add support by extending their projection classes to
> > >generate Smalltalk objects, and to connect up using ODBC.  I'm glad you
> > >mentioned this problem, since I'm running on windows, and I wouldn't have
> > >discovered this problem until later while trying to run this on linux.
> > >
> > >
> > Glad to have been of help :)
> >
> > >I would love to see squeak drivers, have you contacted them about the
> > specs?
> > >
> > >
> > I haven't yet asked them about their specs directly. I've dropped a few
> > hints in support emails but they've either missed them or ignored them -
> > hopefully not the latter as that would indicate that they don't want to
> > give them up. Still, that's nothing but guesswork and I just hadn't got
> > around to asking them properly yet - so many other things on the go at
> > the moment. However if there are two clients asking for the same thing,
> > it would hopefully mean they'd be willing to cooperate; I can't really
> > see why they wouldn't want us to add to the range of interfaces to Caché.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Simon
> >
> >
> > This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl -
> > www.blackspider.com
> >
> >
>
>
>
>


--
Jason Rogers

"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in
the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
me, and gave himself for me."
    Galatians 2:20