Multi MIMSY 2000 

URL: 

http://www.willoughby.info/mimsy/

Source of information: 

website only 

Last updated:   

July 2003 

Contact 

Name:  

Willoughby Associates, Limited  

information 

Address: 266 

Linden 

Street, 

Winnetka, Illinois 60093  

Phone:  

847.332.1200 

Fax :   

847.332.1272  

Email:  

info@willo.com 

Availability and 

Contact 

info@willo.com

, 

cost 

Licence > 10000USD including Oracle DBMS

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Specialization by 

General collection management system including natural history 

taxonomic group 

collections; presumably all taxa 

Computing 

Server: Oracle 8i DBMS platforms (Windows NT, Windows 2000, 

platform 

Windows XP, Apple, several dozen varieties of UNIX, and a 

number of proprietary operating systems including MPE/XL and 

VMS). 

Client: Unix, PCs and Macs may be used on the same server. PC 

clients may run under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, 

Windows XP, or Windows NT 4.0 

Limitations to 

Client/Server database: 

Oracle

scalability 

Standalone version for Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and 

Apple Macintosh available 

Data import 

Oracle import capabilities 

capabilities and/or 

Import from ASCII flat files with pipe character delimited fields 

limitations 

Data export 

Oracle export capabilities 

capabilities and/or 

limitations 

Size and 

USA 

distribution of user 

base 

Source of user 

No information 

documentation 

Database model 

No information 

documentation 

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 According to company's statement, it is not clear if the use of Personal Oracle is envisioned nor if there 

are educational pricing schemes.  

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