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Suzanne Quigley
Spectra editor

>We up to date have used a PC for recording all the object cards and their
>photos as well. But we actually have two strong reasons to replace all our
>equipments. The first reason is that up date we have registered some
>thousands of object cards and it is very difficult to manage them in PC.
>The second reason is that our aim is that by the end of this summer we give
>an access to foreign scholars to have a wide information on our cultural
>properties cards through Internet. Thus, we are in time to choose
>new hardware and software (application for the management of the cultural
>property). The idea is that as we need to have a powerful center (server)
>that can give us the possibility to make several operations at the same
>time ( to be open to the Internet users), to record data and photos, etc.),
>some friends adviced us to choose a product of IBM ( AS/400) and its
>database DB/2.
>
>I am asking if you could possibly help us to make the right choice. For
>every kind of information that you want to get from us, we are available.



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