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RE: Comments about the IS Work database
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin M. Cunningham)
Fri Feb 28 15:17:33 2003
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:17:27 -0500
To: "Pickard, Missy" <PICKA005@onyx.dcri.duke.edu>
From: "Kevin M. Cunningham" <kcunning@MIT.EDU>
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Howdy Missy,
Glad that the IS Work system as I sent it to you might serve your needs.
It turns out another group at MIT closely allied to IS (Financial
System Services) has inquired about piggy-backing on the system, so I
will probably be implementing the consolidated update (including
moving to a single-db version) sooner rather than later. Say within
two or three months.
Not sure yet about the MySQL version. Probably not on this pass. (I
*will* probably move to a PHP front end, though, to be able to enable
certificate-based access rather than requiring FileMaker passwords.)
Keep in touch about how it goes.
--Kevin Cunningham
At 3:01 PM -0500 2/28/03, Pickard, Missy wrote:
>Hi Kevin,
>It is truly awesome how the layout of your information so closely ties to
>our organization. I've just reviewed this with our CIO and he agrees.
>Thank you very much for sharing this with us.
>
>Have you condensed to one database yet? Do you have near-future plans for
>moving to mySQL? He was curious about your next steps but understands that
>this may be where we start from.
>
>Thanks again and let me know if there's anything we could help you with,
>Missy Pickard
>
>> ----------
>> From: Kevin M. Cunningham[SMTP:kcunning@MIT.EDU]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:10 AM
>> To: missy.pickard@duke.edu
>> Cc: itlt@MIT.EDU; iswork@MIT.EDU
>> Subject: Re: Comments about the IS Work database
>>
>> Howdy Melissa,
>>
>> Glad you liked the system.
>>
>> You should know that -- although I have considered moving it to
>> PHP/MySQL -- the system is currently implemented as a series of
>> FileMaker databases, and thus requires FileMaker Unlimited (etc.) to
>> serve to the web.
>>
>> Will that work for you? If so (or if you just wanted to explore it to
>> get your own ideas), I can send you along a set of template files I
>> put together for requests such as yours. Let me know what you'd like.
>>
>> Thanks for your interest.
>>
>> --
>>
>> -Kevin M. Cunningham | 77 Mass. Ave., Room N42-240f,
>> Cambridge, MA 02139
>> Senior Computing Consultant | (617) 253-0177
>> MIT Information Systems | kcunning@mit.edu
>>
