Hello,

I have started a free auction system project at http://www.apartia.org
which is closely tied to PostgreSQL. 

The system is voluntarily closely tied to Postgres for several reasons:

- political decision to support free DB, Postgres being the only one
  with advanced features;
- take advantage of Postgres' advanced features (C triggers and
  functions, notify, foreign keys, etc.)
- gather interest, support and guidance from the Postgres community to
  help out with the DB part of the project;
- be a showcase of Postgres capabilities;

Our goal is to replicate one by one all of the commercial auction
systems functionalities.

We want to program as much functionality as possible on the DB side with
functions and triggers so that other interfaces can be plugged into the
system besides a web interface (a java or GTK auction client, etc.).

Information about the project is available at:

http://www.apartia.org/Project/

where details about CVS access and mailing list are provided.

Suggestions, criticism, comments welcome.

Cheers,

-- 
Louis-David Mitterrand - ldm@apartia.org - http://www.apartia.org

    "If you're not having fun right now, you're wasting your time."

Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:08:54 +0200
Louis-David Mitterrand <cunctator@apartia.ch>
free auction project with Postgres
Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have started a free auction system project at http://www.apartia.org
> which is closely tied to PostgreSQL.

 (snip)

> Our goal is to replicate one by one all of the commercial auction
> systems functionalities.

Wow!  This post just sent the Nasdaq into a tailspin!  Ebay is off more
than 5 points!  :-)

-- 

Ron Peterson
Systems Manager
Wallace Floyd Design Group
273 Summer Street
Boston, MA  02210
617.350.7400 tel
617.350.0051 fax
rpeterson@wallacefloyd.com

Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:39:30 -0400
Ron Peterson <rpeterson@wallacefloyd.com>
Re: free auction project with Postgres