Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-23 Thread Ned Lilly
leased OpenRPT as open source - it's very lightweight, no Java required. http://sf.net/projects/openrpt Cheers, Ned -- Ned Lilly President and CEO xTuple 119 West York Street Norfolk, VA 23510 tel. 757.461.3022 x101 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.xtuple.com ---(end

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-23 Thread Ned Lilly
On 8/23/2007 10:07 AM Thomas Kellerer wrote: Ned Lilly wrote on 23.08.2007 15:44: This is specifically why we released OpenRPT as open source - it's very lightweight, no Java required. http://sf.net/projects/openrpt I am a Java developer and thus I have no problems in using Java

Re: [GENERAL] Reporting services for PostgreSQL

2007-09-04 Thread Ned Lilly
Try OpenRPT - server side rendering engine, and client-side GUI designer. http://sourceforge.net/projects/openrpt Cheers, Ned On 9/1/2007 7:12 AM Andrus wrote: I'm looking for a report generator which renders reports in server and sends rendering result to client. any idea ? Andrus. ---

Re: [GENERAL] Reporting services for PostgreSQL

2007-09-06 Thread Ned Lilly
.NET ? Is OpenRpt now in LGPL, I havent found any announcment about licence change ? Is there any roadmap for future, OpenRpt is not updated almost a year ? Andrus. "Ned Lilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kirjutas sõnumis news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Try OpenRPT - server side ren

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-10-14 Thread Ned Lilly
On 10/14/2007 6:41 PM Geoffrey wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrus wrote: I guess I should have noted that we will need to run this on Linux clients. Geoffrey, You can run FYIReporting engine in Linux using MONO ( www.go-mono.com ) Thanks, we're looking for s

Re: [GENERAL] Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?

2010-07-29 Thread Ned Lilly
On 7/28/2010 3:06 PM Sandeep Srinivasa wrote: yup I did. The reason why I wanted examples was to amply demonstrate,to clients, that postgresql is viable. It is kinda weird if the only examples I have are restricted to the postgresql _community_ websites themselves. Both xTuple web sites (www.

[GENERAL] OpenRPT (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] == PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 24 2005 ==)

2005-04-25 Thread Ned Lilly
cense. For more on the licensing, as well as downloads, CVS, screenshots, docs, project info, etc., please check out the project homepage at http://openrpt.sf.net. Thanks very much, Ned -- Ned Lilly President and CEO OpenMFG, LLC 420 North Center Drive Building 11, Suite 115 Norfolk, VA 23502

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres vs Firebird?

2005-05-04 Thread Ned Lilly
An observation: the one recent study that pumped up Firebird seemed to come out of nowhere, and its findings have yet to be corroborated elsewhere. While as others have noted, Firebird is a fine product (and has a longer history on the Windows platform), I think a little skepticism as to its m

Re: [GENERAL] Please Recommend a Front End App

2005-05-12 Thread Ned Lilly
Kurt, you might want to take a look at OpenRPT (http://pgfoundry.org/projects/openrpt/) - it's a Crystal/Access type report builder for PostgreSQL that works great on any of the feline Mac products. We don't do print to PDF yet, however, someone has raised his hand to work on that with some exis

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-08 Thread Ned Lilly
Jan Wieck wrote: To have a really good position when talking to Oracle, MySQL will need to brush up on the BDB support, and that pretty quick. Maybe Oracle will buy Sleepycat too, and foreclose that option ;-) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-12 Thread Ned Lilly
Bruce Momjian wrote: Marc Fournier owns the PostgreSQL trademark and domain names. Minor point here, but the following domain names: postgresql.com postgres.com postgres.org ... were contributed back to the project by the late Great Bridge LLC, and are registered to the PGDG - with Tom as

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-17 Thread Ned Lilly
Tom Lane wrote: (BTW, has anyone looked lately to see how far away Postgres is from being able to run SAP?) It runs OpenMFG just fine ;-) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.or

Re: [GENERAL] FOSS Reporting tools (was Oracle 10g Express - any

2005-11-03 Thread Ned Lilly
Re: the learning curve, I'd certainly include OpenRPT - http://openrpt.sourceforge.net It's similar to Crystal or Access' report designer, and full rich GUI for all platforms (Win, Mac, Linux/BSD). PDF documentation at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132959&package_id=14

[GENERAL] CA spins off Ingres to a new company

2005-11-07 Thread Ned Lilly
This has been in the works for some time, but it's finally official: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/11/07/CHNcaspinsingres_1.html http://www.ingres.com/ Ingres CEO: "Our goal is to become the leading business open-source database supplier to the enterprise community." Cheers, Ned -

Re: [GENERAL] Report Generation

2004-11-07 Thread Ned Lilly
My company has a GUI report writer and renderer that we will be releasing under an open source license shortly. You can see some intro material at www.openmfg.com/solutions/openreports.php. Please contact me off-list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you'd be interested in beta testing. Regards

[GENERAL] nice work on the new site

2004-12-22 Thread Ned Lilly
To everyone who put in what's clearly a lot of time in building the new website, well done! I think the combination of the 8.0 release and a dramatically more professional website will do wonders for PostgreSQL. Kudos! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL at LinuxWorld Boston

2005-01-31 Thread Ned Lilly
is leading the charge of PostgreSQL consulting and support in the enterprise. If you're going to be in Boston from Feb. 15 to 17, please stop by and say hi. Regards, Ned Lilly -- Ned Lilly President and CEO OpenMFG, LLC 420 North Center Drive Building 11, Suite 115 Norfolk, VA 23502 te

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe"

2006-02-24 Thread Ned Lilly
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote: MySQL already has major funding. I don't see how it could get worse for us if Oracle bought them. I think that Leonards point here is that if Oracle were to acquire them and market MySQL as 'the low-end alternative', that the

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe"

2006-02-24 Thread Ned Lilly
Without going into the particulars, let's just say the total amount spent was less than publicly announced figures, and the parent (sole investor) shut it down before coming close to those figures. Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:52:53 -0400, "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-28 Thread Ned Lilly
Chris Mair wrote: PS: this is, by the way a few months old, I'm wondering why MySQL does the press release only now... Because they don't have anything else to talk about, and are filling a vacuum? Cheers, NL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: H

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] interesting PHP/MySQL thread

2003-06-22 Thread Ned Lilly
I think most people would agree that a large part of MySQL's audience has come from the bundling of MySQL libraries with PHP. Getting PostgreSQL to fill this void would be a very positive development. If concerns about licensing are a major driver here, I would think that PostgreSQL's simple B

[GENERAL] FW: Error

2000-06-28 Thread Ned Lilly
Marc, I'm forwarding your note to the PostgreSQL-GENERAL discussion list. Regards, Ned > -Original Message- > From: Marc Allard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 12:51 PM > Subject: Error > > I am sorry to send you this e-mail, but I don't where to send this

[GENERAL] proposed improvements to PostgreSQL license

2000-07-03 Thread Ned Lilly
, and 2) the proposed text of the license itself. I'll monitor the discussion on the -general list, and if anyone has any specific questions for Rusty, I'll be happy to channel them to him. Thanks, Ned Lilly VP Hacker Relations Great Bridge, LLC - text of note from Rusty Friddell,

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] Revised Copyright: is this morepalatable?

2000-07-05 Thread Ned Lilly
Ron, probably the best example to reassure you here is Illustra/Informix, which is based on the old Berkeley Postgres code. A group of people at Berkeley "forked" the Postgres code into the closed Illustra system, but it survived as Postgres95, then later PostgreSQL when Marc and Bruce got starte

[GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-14 Thread Ned Lilly
Best regards, Ned Lilly VP Hacker Relations Great Bridge, LLC -- Open source database routs competition in new benchmark tests PostgreSQL meets or exceeds speed and scalability of proprietary database leaders, and significantly surpasses open source competitors NORFOLK, Va, August 14,

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-14 Thread Ned Lilly
Marc's right... we opted for ODBC to ensure as much of an "apples to apples" comparison as possible. Of the 5 databases we tested, a native driver existed for only the two (ahem) unnamed proprietary products - Postgres, Interbase, and MySQL had to rely on ODBC. So we used the vendor's own ODBC f

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-15 Thread Ned Lilly
Oh, Dan, I'm not that clever... ;-) But I *can* tell you that the market leading proprietary RDBMS products we tested were not IBM, Informix, or Sybase. Regards, Ned Dan Browning wrote: > > Can you tell us what version of the (ahem) unnamed > > proprietary products > > you used? :-). For exam

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-15 Thread Ned Lilly
Hi Adrian, We only used the released versions of each database. We'd be happy to run the tests again when MySQL 3.23 is official, or when Interbase ships a real ODBC driver for 6.0 for that matter. Regards, Ned Adrian Phillips wrote: > It would have been more interesting if MySQL 3.23 had bee

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-15 Thread Ned Lilly
Mark Kirkwood wrote: > In a related vein, is it possible that any relevant database parameter settings >might be > published to help folk get the best out of their Postgresql systems ? ( apologies if >they are > there and I missed them ) Hi Mark, here's some more info from the lead engineer on

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-15 Thread Ned Lilly
Doh! Sorry, I didn't cc Richard Brosnahan after all. He's at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ned Lilly wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > > i haven't played with interbase yet, but my understanding is they have > > two types of server -- the "classic" (process per co

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-15 Thread Ned Lilly
"Ross J. Reedstrom" wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:21:25PM -0400, Ned Lilly wrote: > > Oh, Dan, I'm not that clever... ;-) > > > > But I *can* tell you that the market leading proprietary RDBMS products we > > tested were not IBM, Informix, or

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-15 Thread Ned Lilly
Er... let me put it this way. Proprietary 2 prefers to run on Windows NT. Chris Bitmead wrote: > That's very helpful. Can you also tell us if Proprietry 1 or Proprietry > 2 was definitely NOT MS-SQL Server?

Re: [GENERAL] AS3AP Implementation for PostgreSQL/Linux ?

2000-08-19 Thread Ned Lilly
Correct... in fact, I think the demo runs all the tests. But its only good for a handful of users (you buy clumps of concurrent users to test), so you wouldn't be able to duplicate the entire test. You'd probably see the same trendlines, though. http://www.Quest.com/download.asp?body=/emaildata

[GENERAL] Great Bridge re-runs benchmark with MySQL "tuned"

2000-08-22 Thread Ned Lilly
Folks, We posted the following announcement on our website today, at http://www.greatbridge.com/news/press.html. Please feel free to email me off-list with any questions. Thanks, Ned UPDATE, August 22, 2000: MySQL performance improves with tuning suggestions from development team; PostgreSQ

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge re-runs benchmark with MySQL "tuned"

2000-08-22 Thread Ned Lilly
See http://www.greatbridge.com/news/p_081620001.html - we increased the cache, ran a vacuum analyze, a few minor things. Regards, Ned "Poul L. Christiansen" wrote: > It would be interesting to see how well PostgreSQL performed when it was > tuned. > > Or has it allrea

[GENERAL] object features in Oracle 8/9

2000-10-09 Thread Ned Lilly
now what's new in the new 9i? Regards, Ned -------- Ned Lilly e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice Presidentw: www.greatbridge.com Evangelism / Hacker Relationsv: 757.233.5523 Great Bridge, LLCf: 757.233.

[GENERAL] Oracle9i—Is it more fluff than stuff?

2000-10-16 Thread Ned Lilly
2639156,00.html -- -------- Ned Lilly e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice Presidentw: www.greatbridge.com Evangelism / Hacker Relationsv: 757.233.5523 Great Bridge, LLCf: 757.233.

Re: [GENERAL] announce list?

2000-11-07 Thread Ned Lilly
> the 404 errors ... are you sure you aren't hitting a mirror? then again, > if you are going to an explicit URL, ou shouldn't hit a mirror ... the 404 is on the linked-off pages, not the page itself. Try any of the September or October links... -- -----

[GENERAL] GT.M database open sourced

2000-11-13 Thread Ned Lilly
Is anybody familiar with this? http://news.excite.com:80/news/bw/001107/pa-sanchez

[GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] (download ANSI SQL benchmark?) Re: Postgres article

2000-11-20 Thread Ned Lilly
(bcc to -hackers) The Benchmark Factory software, recently acquired by Quest Software, can be downloaded for a 30-day trial (limited # of users) at: http://www.benchmarkfactory.com/emaildatabase/FormBenchmarkFactoryTrial.asp?product=BenchmarkFactory (note long URL above might have wrapped) Tha

[GENERAL] Great Bridge PostgreSQL products and services

2000-12-11 Thread Ned Lilly
/press.php?content_id=23 Regards, Ned -- -------- Ned Lilly e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice Presidentw: www.greatbridge.com Evangelism / Hacker Relationsv: 757.233.5523 Great Bridge, LLCf: 757.233.

Re: [GENERAL] Modeling tool / ODBC

2001-01-11 Thread Ned Lilly
ftp.postgresql.org. > > Does anyone use frequently this driver? Is its development stopped? I'm > having some problems with it, what caused someone to suggest to use > M$SQL !! > > Thanks for helping. > -- Ned Lilly

[GENERAL] MySQL file system

2001-01-16 Thread Ned Lilly
Anyone heard about this? http://no.spam.ee/~tonu/mysqlfs.html -- Ned Lilly e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice Presidentw: www.greatbridge.com Evangelism / Hacker Relationsv: 757.233.5523 Great Bridge, LLC

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL file system

2001-01-16 Thread Ned Lilly
ngs yet, to my knowledge). > > The same should be possible with postgres, and it actually DOES have corba > bindings (albeit they are broken AFAIK :) > > -alex > > I'm sure something like this would be possible > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Ned Lilly wrote: >

Re: [GENERAL] LinuxWorld NYC

2001-01-30 Thread Ned Lilly
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com -- Ned Lilly e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice Presidentw: www.greatbridge.com Evangelism / Hacker Relationsv: 757.233.5523 Great Bridge, LLCf: 757.233.

Re: [GENERAL] GUI Clients for PostgreSQL

2001-02-06 Thread Ned Lilly
both excellent tools with comparable functionality, and depending on your environment, one might be more appropriate than the other for you. Regards, Ned Lilly -- ---- Ned Lilly e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice President

Re: [GENERAL] Can PostgreSQL be a mail backend?

2001-02-27 Thread Ned Lilly
t; big data fields now BTW?) > > Thanks, > > Morten > > > -- Ned Lilly e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice Presidentw: www.greatbridge.com Evangelism / Hacker Relationsv: 757.233.5523 Great Bridge, LLCf: 757.233.

Re: [GENERAL] SQL article

2001-03-06 Thread Ned Lilly
he's very interested in learning more about PostgreSQL, and I think we'll see more from him before too long. Bruce Momjian wrote: > I think someone (Ned Lilly?) talked to him about it and he is going to > start mentioning PostgreSQL more. > > >> Kind of annoying

Re: [GENERAL] IDE or RAD tools

2001-03-19 Thread Ned Lilly
ss but in a web-based context? > > If not, it's next on my list of things to tackle. > > Michelle > > Michelle Murrain, Ph.D. > President > Norwottuck Technology Resources > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.norwottuck.com > > ---

[GENERAL] hang on (was: New Book: PostgreSQL: The Elephant Never Forgets)

2001-03-21 Thread Ned Lilly
FI "PostgreSQL Great Bridge version 7.1" ? Is GB putting out > their own releases now? Ned? Bruce? > > Vince. -- Ned Lilly e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice Presidentw: www.greatbridge.c

Re: [GENERAL] Benchmarking PostgreSQL

2001-04-13 Thread Ned Lilly
in the archives. Regards, Ned -- -------- Ned Lilly e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice Presidentw: www.greatbridge.com Evangelism / Hacker Relationsv: 757.233.5523 Great Bridge, LLCf: 757.233. -

Re: [GENERAL] Steering committee responce to Great Bridge LLC

2000-05-10 Thread Ned Lilly
and their new commitment to postgresql. We'll > all be watching you closely, hoping you all can live up to the promise of > helping make pgsql the success we (as it's users) know it can be. Thanks! BTW, we're already users ourselves- a number of our businesses are already usin

Re: [GENERAL] Steering committee responce to Great Bridge LLC

2000-05-10 Thread Ned Lilly
Weather Channel, weather.com, and Trader Publishing (Auto Trader, Boat Trader, etc.) We've published the newspaper in my home town, Norfolk, Virginia, for 100 years. We build businesses to last - but don't take my word for it, we've got a record to prove it. Regards, Ned Lilly Ed Loe