Optical Jukebox Page Image Databases on Unix?

[Tim Bray]

There is now good optical disk jukebox technology; a common application is the
storage of millions (literally) of compressed page images; essentially just an
optical file cabinet.  Group 4 compressed Tiff format is quite common.

Recently went looking for somebody who's doing this on a Unix box; shouldn't
be hard, these things have SCSI interfaces.  Was rather surprised to find
nothing out there.

Anybody doing this?  Better yet, anybody selling tools to automate and control
this process?  Anybody at least have a usable driver interface?  Ideally for
DEC RISC boxes, but any popular system would be of interest.

Sorry for cluttering up these newsgroups, but there ain't no
comp.database.image

To avoid propagating the clutter, please reply by mail; I'll summarize if
there are any worthwhile results.

Cheers, Tim Bray, Open Text Systems, Inc
tbray at watsol.waterloo.edu OR
tbray at watsol.UWaterloo.Ca