- <para>
- Zebra supports large databases (more than ten gigabytes of data,
- tens of millions of records). It supports safe, incremental
- database updates on live systems. You can access data stored in
- Zebra using a variety of Index Data tools (eg. YAZ and PHP/YAZ) as
- well as commercial and freeware Z39.50 clients and toolkits.
- </para>
+ <para>
+ Zebra supports large databases (tens of millions of records,
+ tens of gigabytes of data). It allows safe, incremental
+ database updates on live systems. Because Zebra supports
+ the industry-standard information retrieval protocol, Z39.50,
+ you can search Zebra databases using an enormous variety of
+ programs and toolkits, both commercial and free, which understand
+ this protocol. Application libraries are available to allow
+ bespoke clients to be written in Perl, C, C++, Java, Tcl, Visual
+ Basic, Python, PHP and more - see
+ <ulink url="http://zoom.z3950.org/">the ZOOM web site</ulink>
+ for more information on some of these client toolkits.
+ </para>