Well, which proves one more time - forget about democracy - this is an oligarchy - corporations buy politicians and interests of the few rich become the law. Who needs innovation and entrepreneurship anyway - BG has enough money to get those words out of the dictionaries and lexicon by the next Windows 20xx release.
It sounds to me like you need more of the Database (probably relational) than just a version management system. Since you mentioned of different authors working on the (potentially) same pieces of the information - you will need one with decent support for locking and transaction isolation levels. PostgreSQL is probably the right candidate from the OpenSource domain and from proprietary ones - I would say Oracle. You might need to look into some additional features such as how your database will be searched - will you just provide search by drug name (relatively simple, if everybody can provide the correct spelling for drug names) or you need something with richer functionality, such as text search in the drug description and/or reviews search of the contributing members. Again - Oracle will give you something called interMedia text search, which works OK. There are some projects in the Free Source world to provide similar functionality (inclduding in MySQL) - but I do not know the name(s) of them. Out of proprietary world for the special Text Search engines I can name Thunderstone and AltaVista - I worked with both, have their own pros and cons, but both are pretty expensive;-). And... you still need to write the front end/application for functionality you need;-).
Good Luck - sounds like an interesting project to do.
You are the lucky one;-).It is true for smaller scale companies that still need American labor. Big shops - CitiBank, some insurance companies, Meryll alot of others are outsourcing. Well - after we all have nothing to eat - who will buy their products?
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Well, which proves one more time - forget about democracy - this is an oligarchy - corporations buy politicians and interests of the few rich become the law. Who needs innovation and entrepreneurship anyway - BG has enough money to get those words out of the dictionaries and lexicon by the next Windows 20xx release.
It sounds to me like you need more of the Database (probably relational) than just a version management system. Since you mentioned of different authors working on the (potentially) same pieces of the information - you will need one with decent support for locking and transaction isolation levels. PostgreSQL is probably the right candidate from the OpenSource domain and from proprietary ones - I would say Oracle. You might need to look into some additional features such as how your database will be searched - will you just provide search by drug name (relatively simple, if everybody can provide the correct spelling for drug names) or you need something with richer functionality, such as text search in the drug description and/or reviews search of the contributing members. Again - Oracle will give you something called interMedia text search, which works OK. There are some projects in the Free Source world to provide similar functionality (inclduding in MySQL) - but I do not know the name(s) of them. Out of proprietary world for the special Text Search engines I can name Thunderstone and AltaVista - I worked with both, have their own pros and cons, but both are pretty expensive ;-). And... you still need to write the front end/application for functionality you need ;-).
Good Luck - sounds like an interesting project to do.
You are the lucky one ;-).It is true for smaller scale companies that still need American labor. Big shops - CitiBank, some insurance companies, Meryll alot of others are outsourcing. Well - after we all have nothing to eat - who will buy their products?