[luau] Database Presentation Info Needed

[beesond001 at hawaii.rr.com]

Warren,

	I am not a database kind of guy... but...  I am aware that the "ACID" 
intrusion detection project as well as Snort can be tied to databases to 
log the packets that get sniffed etc. so signatures can be recovered 
later for a analysis in both a machine readable and human readable form.  
This whole package uses open source stuff (including the database) and 
can be found at:    


http://www.snort.org/

and ACID can be found at: 

http://www.cert.org/kb/acid/ 


I don't use the database part yet because I haven't needed it on my LAN, 
but I find snort extremely useful as a supplement to my firewall.


Hope this helps just a little,

Ben 




>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 4/26/02, 10:54:42 PM, "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com> wrote 
regarding [luau] Database Presentation Info Needed:


> This semester I have been taking ICS321 at University of Hawaii on 
databases
> where we were forced to use MS SQL 2000 and Visual Basic. =(

> Fortunately, I have approval from the instructor to do a short 20-30 
minute
> presentation on Open Source databases in class on Saturday, May 4th.  
This
> may be the only chance that these ~50 people would have to be exposed to
> Open Source software, so I want this presentation to be effective.

> I hope to show examples of MySQL and PostgreSQL, along with a few slides
> showing the benefits of Open Source, effectiveness of OSS databases, the
> languages like PHP, perl and python, and especially the economic benefits 
in
> price.

> On one of the diagrams will be a side-by-side comparison of MySQL,
> PostgreSQL, and commercial databases like MSSQL, DB2, and Oracle.  I 
could
> use some assistance in putting together this chart of key similar and
> different features that these products support.

> Any convincing arguments for Linux based commercial databases over MS 
SQL?
> (target audience)

> Any good Open Source data modeling and management tools with similar
> functionality to MS SQL Enterprise Manager?  My presentation is currently
> lacking some decent GUI tools and screenshots.  I don't want to scare 
them
> with command line stuff just yet. ;)

> Any other useful resources and tips that may help this presentation?

> Thanks in advance,
> Warren Togami
> warren at togami.com


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