Linux Help for local Library

[Rick Palmer]

My advice for anyone considering helping these folks is to keep your 
time investment down, don't invest any money you don't want to loose 
and watch out for the politics.  The people in charge are wolves in 
sheeps clothing.  They will take what you do and claim it.  If you do 
something someone doesn't like they will blame you and don't be 
surprised if it gets legal.

I have worked as a consultant and contractor for them and they will 
chew you up, spit you out and move on to the next sucker who thinks 
they are doing a good deed.   They walked away from $20,000 worth of 
bills and then threatened to use free lawyers to not to pay the bill 
they incurred through me as a middle man.   I got the privilege of 
paying it.   If it sounds like I am unhappy with them...your right. 
Take it for what its worth...but the bureaucrats in charge are not 
the same breed as the librarian at the local branch.  They are 
ruthless politicians in a world where power counts more than money or 
people.

wow... I thought I'd forgotten about all that....  got the adrenaline 
pumping again real quick!

rick

At 8:12 PM -0500 8/31/01, Bob Batson wrote:
>At 3:24 PM -0500 8/31/01, Franklin, Joel wrote:
>
>>How are they using NT4 on a mainframe?
>>
>>What kinds of applications are they running now and what do they want to
>run
>According to the Netcraft Web Site finder <http://wcom/>, they 
>(Mid-Continent Public Library) are  running Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 
>SP3 on NT4/Windows 98 as the OS on their website at 
>http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/ They are also using INLEX/3000 for the 
>Library Management System (card-catalog)
>
>A branch librarian was the person who mentioned they were using a 
>Mainframe computer at their headquarters location, but I've since 
>learned she was wrong. I'll get more details after the holiday and 
>also inquire if it would  be alright if you contacted (by E-mail) 
>the person who's in charge of the project.
>
>In fact today I received the following note:
>
>"We are currently a combination of Windows NT on servers and 98 on
>most branch PC's
>
>I don't seriously we will consider using Linux.  The operating system
>will be entirely dependent upon the automation that we get.  Most
>support either NT or Unix.  There are none that I know of that
>support Linux."
>
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>Bob Batson                            L 39 12 14 N 94 33 16 W
>rcb at kc.rr.com                         Kansas City
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>Under the most controlled conditions, the experimental apparatus
>will do exactly as it pleases.
>
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