On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Roy Brown wrote:

> >
> >Sounds like the plot to a Stephen King movie. :)
>
> Misery?

I have got the opinion "you have sold your soul to that devil in Redmond
Washington" from Mr. John Beckett.

When I was asked to judge the possible directions of migration,
I wrote an essay to the National and International Atomic energy Agency.

                                         Main advantages    disadvantages
I investigated the following directons:
1. To MPE iX or HP UNIX/Newer Image      Smooth migration   Highest cost
                                         reusable source    few experts
                                         reliability
2. Oracle under MPE iX or Windows
3. Visual Prolog under Windows           Long term history   Not
                                                             well-known
                                         under various opsys

4. MS Access under Windows               Flexible planning   Unreilable
                                         Most wide-spreaded

The outer force that moved us to the "devil" was that the IAEA in Vienna
made a system about radioactive sources "Rais" in Microsoft Access. Our
insitute had not money for the migration. The IAEA supported us only if we
chose Access.

If I were a boss having control enough money, I would choose Visual Prolog
under anything else but Windows.

                                Such is life

                                                       Frank

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