Customer vs Company

[plussier at mindspring.com]

In a message dated: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 12:35:22 BST
"Alaric B. Snell" said:

>On Thursday 03 April 2003 21:32, plussier at mindspring.com wrote:
>
>> I don't know that it can't speak SQL to a SQL db server, but that's
>> not a model I've ever seen (though, you'd think someone, somewhere,
>> would have thought of this and tried it out by now :)
>
>Oracle's LDAP server does precisely that! Sadly, it's a bit lame 

I also just stumbled across a mention of IBM's LDAP server which is 
backed by DB2.

I also ran across this entry on the OpenLDAP FAQ-O-Matic:

	http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/378.html

which explains why RDBs are not easily mapped to the LDAP model.
Since I'm not an RDB nor an LDAP expert, I can only point at this and 
say, "Here, this is what the OpenLDAP people say!" :) I have no idea 
whether what they say is valid or not.

>> Agreed. 100%.  But how do we do that?  Evolution speaks LDAP (or claims
>> to, I playing with it right now against my corp. LDAP server and I'm
>> 1 for 10 queries right now!) but not SQL.  GnuCash is going to speak
>> SQL, but not LDAP.  So what kind of intermediary solutions are there?
>
>Take the official Gnome line and use a CORBA interface?

What does using CORBA get us?  My understanding is that it's an 
underlying application communication framework.  Are you suggesting 
that there's some way to have Evo talk to CORBA to access some object 
offered by GnuCash?  And if so, how does this work when GnuCash isn't 
currently running?  And, can this work across the network by other 
systems on which GnuCash is not running?

I ask, because I have no idea what the answers are, since I know next 
to nothing about CORBA.
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