Knomos Requirements

Knomos is a server-based application.

• The client side is any terminal running a Web browser. The terminal may be a PC or a Macintosh (or a WebTV, or a SPARC or Power workstation, or - with a number of inconveniences - a PDA or a smartphone). If it is a PC, it may run any flavour of Linux, or Windows, or Unix, or OS/2. The browser may be Mozilla/Firefox, or for that matter Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, etc. The presence of a Java plugin is however required.
• Knomos may be accessed through TCP/IP ove ra LAN, any kind of WAN, a VPN, an intranet, an extranet and the Internet.
• The server side is a pure LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) application. This statement should however be qualified as follows:

  I) MySQL could in principle be replaced, with some efforts, by another SQL server, such as IBM DB2, Oracle or Microsoft SQL.

  II) Similarly, it should be rather easy to port Knomos to a Web server othen than Apache, such as Microsoft Web Server.

  III) Linux can in turn be very easily replaced with any operating system capable of running Apache and MySQL (such as Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Sun Solaris, Mac OS/X, IBM OS/2), or, subject to the porting described under points I) and II), to any operating system capable of running a SQL server and a Web server.

• Knomos adopts for its internal text-processing XML, and in particular the Oasis format for texts, but it allows the user to adopt or continue using any third-party application, including in particular all existing Office suites (e.g., Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, StarOffice, K-Office, IBM Lotus Smartsuite, Corel Wordperfect). Knomos data can be accessed and exported through any SQL front-end.

Having said that, the reference implementation is on a Novell SuSe Linux Enterprise Server running MySQL, Apache and PHP, accessed via TCP/IP by x86 personal computers running Firefox, Sun Java and OpenOffice.org over Novell SuSe Linux Professional.