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Geeklog in Enterprises?

Authored by: MLimburg on Tuesday, January 21 2003 @ 06:47 pm EST

I've started work at BAE SYSTEMS (used to be British Aerospace) as their Unix Operations Team Leader (wanky title meaning guy incharge of the *nix and dba gurus) and I've been looking at how to use GL in here.

Immediate problems I've encountered are:

Database .. Need an Oracle schema and db abstraction layer
Authenification .. Need to be able to talk to NTLM (or atleast LDAP which will be implemented in the next six months here)
WYSIWYG Editor .. People use FrontPage 98 (cough .. spit .. forces bile back into gut) to update their site, and getting the unwashed masses to use a textarea just won't happen

The organisational side of it is open to the idea of trialing it, but it would not be our Intranet, more a resource for Information Systems to communicate to each other, and to retain technical knowledge. This leads into a plugin I want to write for GL which does just that .. some form of knowledgebase.

I think most (all) of these issues (and more on top of that) will be addressed with GL2, but like most people, I want my cake now :) On the WYSIWYG side, EditSite Pro (http://www.editsitepro.com) may be one way to go .. professional javascript based editor, fully PHP (as an option), getting big reviews, and if we manage to score a $599US license for it, we can actually redistribute this legally. Hmmm, maybe we can get them to donate an uber-license or convince my Director to buy a copy and donate it ...

Once GL2 is up and running, I'm happy to assign some resources here (NetBSD maintainer and Oracle DBA guru) into the mix, as the Director of IS is quite interested the potential of GL2 ... now all I have to do is get my open source development mandate in writing ...

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Geeklog in Enterprises?

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Sunday, January 26 2003 @ 12:38 pm EST

Best way to implement multiple databases? ODBC!

I'd like to see Geeklog be one of the first of it's kind to offer ODBC as a viable option and not try to solve a problem that's been solved already. (ODBC is pretty easy to setup, even easier to setup on *nix that Windows, the horror!)

Check into it. It's suprisingly nice. Lets the user run just about every imaginable database they can think of, and they can run it anywhere they want too as well.

Food for thought. (It'll eliminate i want it to work with DB2/Oracle/Inno/etc. requests...)

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