Tycoon Users

In the last three years, we have used Tycoon mainly for basic resarch into persistent and distributed system architectures within our own group. However, we are now starting to give away the bootstrapped Tycoon system to other research and development groups. Most of our current clients utilize Tycoon for system integration tasks:

• The database systems group of Prof. Dr. Martin Gogolla at Bremen University used a SunOS Tycoon system to build a system for the validation of TROLL light specifications (Diplomarbeit von Mark Richters).
• The group of Prof. Catriel Beeri (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) uses a SunOS4.1 Tycoon system for the design of polymorphic libraries supporting the optimization of multiple bulk type queries.
• The group Computergestüzte Informationssysteme (Prof. Herbert Weber, Dr. Ralf Kutsche, TU Universität Berlin, Germany) uses a SunOS4.1 Tycoon system to explore the integration of heterogeneous environmental databases (Diplomarbeit von Susanne Busse). It is planned to utilize the experience gained in this project for further (commercial) projects at the Frauenhofer ISST Berlin.
• The group Angewandte und Sozialorientierte Informatik (Dr. Bernd Page, Dr. Lorenz Hilty, Universität Hamburg, Germany) uses a SunOS4.1 and a Macintosh Tycoon system to integrate a geographical information system (GIS) on the Macintosh with a Sun simulation workbench in the framework of a logistics resarch project (Mobile).
• All WWW server database scripts of the European Idomeneus Network of Excellence are implemented using a SunOS4.1 Tycoon system (Bulletin Board, OASIS).
• The PolitIcon project (Prof. Warncke, Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, FB09, Universität Hamburg, Prof. Schmidt, DBIS, FB18, Universität Hamburg) uses a SunOS4.1 Tycoon system to integrate relational databases, a text retrieval engine and a WWW front end to build a workbench for art history researchers.
• The Style project used a SunOS4.1 Tycoon system to implement an object-oriented data modeling workbench which provides an integrated set of graphical and textual modeling tools, generation support and data model animation.
• Prof. David Maier (DISC, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology) and Prof. Stan Zdonik (Object-Oriented Database Group, Brown University) plan to include Tycoon examples into their book on object-oriented databases and are eagerly awaiting their copy of a stand-alone Tycoon Macintosh system.
• Our most recent project utilizes SunOS4.1, SunOS5.3, Macintosh and Windows-NT Tycoon systems to build a multi-platform workflow system [Stam95] for cross-company workflow design and enactment.

If you are interested in using Tycoon for your own research and development work, please visit the Tycoon distribution information page.