RE: Another question for you

Thanks Russ.
Cheers,
Ian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russ Rew [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: November-06-11 8:25 PM
> To: Ian Barrodale
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Another question for you
> 
> Hi Ian,
> 
> > Some time ago we developed DaL (an acronym for Draw and Load), a tool
> > for loading files into databases via a GUI.  It has been provided at
> > no charge to users who've licensed one of our database extensions.
> > Until recently it only worked with PostgreSQL and Informix, because
> > those are the two databases for which we have extensions.  We've now
> > got an in-house version of DaL working with Oracle, but we're not yet
> > ready to release Oracle versions of our database extensions.  Given
> > that DaL is pitched to users of NetCDF files, do you have any thoughts
> > on whether it's likely to be of interest to Oracle + NetCDF users?  It
> > does allow loads into Oracle GeoRasters.
> 
> I don't know of many Oracle + NetCDF users, so I may not be the right
person
> to ask.  I know that NOAA had (and probably still has) an Oracle license
> agreement for use across several of their data centers that also use
netCDF,
> but I haven't had questions from anyone about ways to make them inter-
> operate on the same data.
> 
> > PS: Here's our current description of DaL:
> >
> > *   By drawing lines between graphic nodes representing file contents
> > and database tables, a user controls how data is stored
> > *   The current version of DaL works with Informix and PostgreSQL
> > *   DaL has support for two BCS database extensions (DBXten and Grid
> > DataBlades), but it can also be used without them
> > *   DaL uses Unidata's NetCDF Java library and hence can read from any
> > Unidata Common Data Model (CDM) file or protocol
> 
> I'm forwarding this to the two netCDF-Java developers here, in case they
> know whether this would be of interest to netCDF-Java users.
> 
> --Russ