Hi all,
Sorry for jumping to this thread so late, but it was weekend and I was 
far from my computer :)
A little team of students and I are developing SqueakDBX... It is just 
the begining, but we hope to provide a realiable DB plugin, who uses 
asyncronic calls for performing the queries (and OpenDBX do that). This 
project was rejected from SoC (the comunity felt that other projects 
were more importat), but we kept working on, and now it is listed as a 
possible SummerTalk project.
Currently, the code in www.squeaksource.com/SqueakDBX is just a proof 
of concept and little more, but we are very exited about the preliminar 
results. Of course, OpenDBX currently runs only on *nix systems (and 
OSX, of course), and not windows, but I think it wont be difficult to 
migrate it to windoze... Norbert, the mantainer of OpenDBX is very 
helpful.

I invite you (Igor, Rob, Klaus and all the interested in developing a 
modern DB plugin) to join efforts, not duplicating them.

Thanks,
Esteban

On 2008-05-11 12:02:07 -0300, "Rob Rothwell" <r.j.rothwell at gmail.com> said:

> 
> 
> Klaus,
> 
> I would be happy to help any way I can!  I and co-worker have access to
> Oracle, SQL server, Postgres, MySQL, DB2, and KBase data sources, to name a
> few.  And we are definitely good at "breaking" things.
> 
> Not so long ago, I was a decent assembly language programmer, but have never
> written a Squeak plugin before and still consider myself to be on the
> "novice" end of the Smalltalk spectrum, although I am starting to turn the
> corner.
> 
> Thanks for the invitation,
> 
> Rob
> 
> On 5/11/08, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, 10 May 2008 21:08:53 +0200, Rob Rothwell wrote:
>> 
>> On 5/10/08, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 2008/5/10 Rob Rothwell :
>>>> 
>>>> I can help with windoze port of openDbx. Lets hope its wouldn't be too
>>>> hard.
>>>> Also i can help with making generic binding of openDBX to squeak by
>>>> implementing a plugin.
>>>> But i'm not yet ready to start with it :)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Sounds good.  Is there anything I can try to learn in the meantime that
>>> would make me more useful?
>>> 
>> 
>> Yes, sure. Igor+my have decided to build a new DB plugin for the MS$
>> platform, so that we perhaps no longer hear complaints about missing MS$+DB
>> support (for the major/open DB vendors) in Squeak. You are invited to join
>> us, we could make use of some input and also help with non-toy DB testing
>> (and whatever you'd like to share or help with).
>> 
>> This is also an invitation to join the project, for Squeakers who asked
>> for Oracle support on their MS$ platform.
>> 
>> Send email please.
> 
> 
> <span class="gmail_quote">Klaus,<br><br>I would be happy to help any 
> way I can! &nbsp;I and co-worker have access to Oracle, SQL server, 
> Postgres, MySQL, DB2, and KBase data sources, to name a few. &nbsp;And 
> we are definitely good at &quot;breaking&quot; things.<br>
>  <br>Not so long ago, I was a decent assembly language programmer, but 
> have never written&nbsp;a Squeak plugin before and still consider 
> myself to be on the &quot;novice&quot; end of the Smalltalk spectrum, 
> although I am starting to turn the corner.<br>
> <br>Thanks for the invitation,<br><br>Rob<br><br>On 5/11/08, <b 
> class="gmail_sendername">Klaus D. Witzel</b> &lt;<a 
> href="mailto:klaus.witzel at cobss.com">klaus.witzel at cobss.com</a>&gt; 
> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; 
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> On Sat, 10 May 2008 21:08:53 +0200, Rob Rothwell 
> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left-color: 
> #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; 
> padding-left: 1ex"> On 5/10/08, Igor Stasenko wrote:<br>
> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left-color: #cccccc; 
> border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 
> 1ex"><br> 2008/5/10 Rob Rothwell :<br><br> I can help with windoze port 
> of openDbx. Lets hope its wouldn&#39;t be too<br>
>  hard.<br> Also i can help with making generic binding of openDBX to 
> squeak by<br> implementing a plugin.<br> But i&#39;m not yet ready to 
> start with it :)<br><br></blockquote><br> Sounds good. &nbsp;Is there 
> anything I can try to learn in the meantime that<br>
>  would make me more useful?<br></blockquote><br> Yes, sure. Igor+my 
> have decided to build a new DB plugin for the MS$ platform, so that we 
> perhaps no longer hear complaints about missing MS$+DB support (for the 
> major/open DB vendors) in Squeak. You are invited to join us, we could 
> make use of some input and also help with non-toy DB testing (and 
> whatever you&#39;d like to share or help with).<br>
> <br> This is also an invitation to join the project, for Squeakers who 
> asked for Oracle support on their MS$ platform.<br><br> Send email 
> please.</blockquote><div>&nbsp;</div><br><br>