Thin Client and Sound

[William Park]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:02:48PM -0500, Phil Kay wrote:
> Sorry, I should have been more specific.  Its not the db.  We use MySQL
> for all of our web serving.  We replaced MSSQL and IIS about 5 years ago
> with LAMP and haven't looked back since.
> 
> What I meant was that the applications that are currently under
> development to fulfill our needs are almost all being developed for
> MSSQL.  Our current system works great and has for years on OpenVMS and
> a proprietary db, but the interface is not intuitive.  We have a hard
> time keeping workers long enough to adequately train them.  So an
> intuitive interface is a distinct need.  I have looked at several apps
> that look promising that will do what we want (the main areas are
> Financial, Registration, Financial Aid, and Recruitment), but they would
> need a lot of development time to work for us.
> 
> There are lots of companies out there actively developing these types of
> applications, but like I said, almost all built on MSSQL.  If anyone
> knows of anything that might work, let me know.

There is no way around then.  You have to cough up some money, either
for pre-packaged stuffs or for programmers' meal.  If your data
structure can be implemented (at the back-end) with shell scripts and
text files, then let me know. :-)  Training and retention would no
problem, provided your staffs know about file system.

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