Hi Jan,

The long term goal is to have both an Intranet for in-house users (this
will support a multitude of various applications) and Internet access for
customers to pay their bill, look up history information and things like
that (real-time).  We are also looking into telephone systems that will
allow the customer to call up and get billing/history information.

The Intranet will most likely be on an NT platform (I'm 99.9% sure) but
the Internet access doesn't necessarily have to be.

This is a water utility company.  We have a small IT department.  My IT
manager is uncomfortable with the current multi-platform environment,
specifically the HP3000, and would prefer to move everything toward an NT
environment but since all of the financial systems are on the HP, he has
decided that for the short term we (I) can develop a test Internet
assessable application on the HP to show what can be done (sort of a demo
for the Board of Directors, I think).  Now you know as well as I do that
when you do things like this it generally turns out that the "test"
application becomes "the" application so I want to do it right and make
the HP shine and show it's best qualities.  So any help is greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
Jeanne
Otay Water District

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Please specify where you want to go to. You only told us where you are.
Jan Gerrit Kootstra

Jeanne Pitts heeft geschreven in bericht ...
>Hi,
>
>My company is interested in setting up an application that allows
>customer access for paying bills & history inquire on their accounts.
> Our current system is on an HP3000 using MPE, TurboImage and the
>application is written in COBOL.  The HP3000 is accessible over an NT
>network and we do have an ISP plus with have HP terminals hooked up to
>the 3000.  It's pretty primitive but functional.  What products and
steps
>do you recommend to get from where my company is now to where they want
>to go?  We would like portability from the 3000 to the network & vise
>versa.
>Jeanne
>