Hi Komal,
The CRIS (Centre for Railway Information Systems) is responsible for managing railway reservations. I had the opportunity of visiting their office in Delhi last year and I must say that they have some extremely talented programmers. At that time, they were in the process of testing Linux Thin terminals and I was working for a company that sold them a couple of pieces for testing purposes. Their application is written in C++ and it has been ported to Linux - compiles perfectly, is fast and very stable. They were planning to shift all reservation terminals to Linux in a phased manner.
Sybase is the database that they use. They were still persisting with ISCII for multilingual capabilities (not UNICODE) just because lot of code would break otherwise.
Regards, Ashok
-----Original Message----- From: linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in [mailto:linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in]On Behalf Of komal Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 11:47 AM To: bombay GNU/Linux Users Group; bangtech Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Rail reservation system
Hi I am very impressed by Railway reservation system. I want to know which database Railway reservation system uses? Are they using Linux on Oracle? In which programming language Railway reservation system is developed? I like console-based apps not bloated GUI apps, which requires mouse. I want to deploy such application for my client using MySQL but not sure, which front I should use. What about ncurses?
Thank you Komal