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   Karen Anderson<[log in to unmask]>:
Robin Panza <[log in to unmask]> writes
> the consultant quit, so I sat down and
> learned Paradox and finished the customization and
> I STRONGLY ENDORSE the idea of self-customization.
 
I concur. Although my previous programming knowledge was limited to a sort
of halting Hypertalk, I was able to develop a relational -- and I used the
term loosely -- multi-user collections management database with Omnis on
the Macintosh. We currently have about 10,000 records on the system, half
of our collection. New data entry windows, lists, reports, searches, new
fields, new files, images, binaries, umpteen varieties of batch processing
(including nifty date transpositions)... all are possibile (when I have
time).
 
But...
 
You have to have some innate wire-headedness to accomplish the task.
You have to make sure the system can continue if you get hit by a bus tomorrow.
You have to choose a development platform that is durable and convertible.
 
That being the case, let a thousand systems bloom. Though 990 of them will
wilt 'ere winter.
 
 
 
 
  .   Jim Swanson    . Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
  . Banff, Alberta CANADA .                     .
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