Hello users,
as I stated in the "roadmap 2005" announcement, I plan to restructure the local database of K-PACS.
I successfully tried to connect to the CONQUEST database using dBASE and will also try to do the same with CONQUEST using MySQL. If all my tests are satisfactory I consider to integrate the CONQUEST dGate dicom server as the core of my application. This server is very stable and the databases are well structured. It is even quite performant with the internal dBase driver.
Advantages will be: support of query/retrieve as SCP, better file management, support of several compression formats and of course stability.
Last not least it will open up the doors to a real PACS Client/Server architectur with database connection to a main server, real "image on demand", status fields and so on..
Andreas