Re: database construction
Patricia Bruce (mailto:PBruce@SWRI.EDU)
Wed, 4 Jun 1997 15:25:08 CDT
Message-Id: <199706042026.NAA285700@dns.ccit.arizona.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 15:25:08 CDT
From: Patricia Bruce <mailto:PBruce@SWRI.EDU>
Subject: Re: database construction
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
We are always interested in examining other options. Could you share some
information on these specific image centric databases? Company contacts with
addresses and telephone or E-mail information would be very helpful. Thank
you for your assistance.
iminteg <mailto:iminteg@SIRIUS.COM> Wrote:
|
| I' ve got to repeat the question - why are you all
| re inventing the wheel?
| With several image centric databases which can
| communicate with the
| powerhouses either through web interfaces or protocol, why
| try to
| recreate it in something like oracle? This is a serious
| question. What
| are you gaining when Canto's Cummullus or DAS's AXSPRO can
| easily read
| your image files tags and will continue to maintain that
| ability with
| changing image file formats. They aren't very expensive,
| relative to
| Oracle and the other big guys. I would even see them as a
| utility. Got
| to admit I use Kodak's defunct Shoebox as a utility to
| load image and
| file information into FMP databases which are smaller then
| being
| discussed here and the image is auxiliary.
|
| Trudy Levy
| Image Integration
| 7 Third Ave
| San Francisco,CA 94118
| 415 750 1274
| mailto:ImInteg@sirius.com
| Images are information - Manage them.
|