That looks like exactly what we are looking for, does
anyone have contact info for Paul? I did not see any on
the website and the google search turns up not much
(although an alternate spelling of his name gets a lot of
hits).

Thanks! I really would like to get one of our larger apps
off oracle soon.

John-

On Wed, 19 May 2004 17:35:59 -0000
"saulius_vabalas" <savas@...> wrote:

>Found session description from last Firebird conference.
>You can
>investigate that as well.
>
>171 - Moving applications from Oracle to Firebird
>Paul Ruizendall
>Database indepence has proven to be an elusive goal.
>Almost all
>realworld enterprise applications are dependent on the
>database
>system they were designed for. This dependence ranges
>from
>differences in data formats, to differences in SQL
>dialect and to
>differences in lock behaviour. As a result, porting large
>enterprise
>applications to another database is either impossible due
>to lack of
>particular features or very costly because of the amount
>of code
>change needed. Stored procedures are particularly hard to
>port.
>
>The 'Fyracle' project delivers database indepence for
>large,
>Oraclebased applications, by extending the open source,
>enterprise
>class
>Firebird RDBMS to accept Oracle-style SQL and PL/SQL
>stored
>procedures. This will be demonstrated by showing how the
>popular
>"Compiere" open source ERP+CRM package runs on Firebird
>-- with
>virtually no change to the Compiere code base.
>
>
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