mardi 20 juillet 2004

Two more major articles on CPS and ERP5 Nuxeo gets two more great articles (first, second) on CPS in the major French IT magazine 01.net. Here is a headline: Le ministère de l'Intérieur remanie ses intranets à l'aide de Zope, la plate-forme de développement Web en open source. Objectifs : réduction des coûts et réutilisabilité Essentially, the Minister of the Interior switches to Zope, an open source web platform. Reasons: cost reduction and reuse. Congrats Stefane and Nuxeo, both for the articles and the successful projects! The second link mentions ERP5, the Zope-based ERP system by Jean-Paul Smets at Nexedi. 11:10:08 AM   comment []

Berkeley DB XML 2 There's a post out discussing some of the planned features for the 2.0 release of Berkeley DB XML, scheduled for later this year. Notable stuff: better support for large documents and XQuery/XPath 2. The former is relatively interesting. Because the underlying Berkeley DB has some known characteristics in large-volume settings, having a million docs in a corpus should be ok. However, what if one doc is 20 Mb with tons of nodes, and a query matches on a subnode? The current DB XML retrieves the whole doc. Apparently 2.0 will support "finer granularity". I'm quite interested in the XQuery and XPath 2 support. I read some reviews of XPath 2 and, well, it's just what the doctor ordered on some of the classic expressions I run across in XSLT. For example, searches with date operations can now be supported. Related to DB XML, I found a post where a guy put together Fink packages. All of this is related to my investigation of Syncato, which is (IMO) one of the most interesting content server projects currently available. 11:03:24 AM   comment []