=> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] => [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of =>[EMAIL PROTECTED] => Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 14:36 => To: ProFox Email List => Subject: RE: migration efforts from FREE DBFs to RDBMS (like => SQL Server) => => > From: "Hal Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The un"smart" => ones were => > using Lotus123 for word processing, org charts, flow => charts, and other non-mathematical uses. And who could blame them? => => I have to laugh at that statement. My dad used 123 R1 for => everything back in the day. Word processing, data, => analysis. He maintained an audit system for NY Telephone => where he was in charge of a project for asset control. => Seems the phone company got caught liquidating for bribe => money, and he had to define that the equipment was still in => use somewhere. He kept the assets listed in various sheets, => and would do a => rand() to determine which pieces he had to track down that week. => => He was surprised that a phone switch moved as much as is did. ;-> => That explains a lot. In 1978, my contacts at Bell Labs started working on a project called PREMIS. It was supposed to keep track of physical plant and customer equipment. The reason they needed it was because someone had estimated there was $7 Billion of physical plant that was totally unaccounted for and even more that could not be matched up with service. That meant that new cabling had to be installed almost every time, which only made the problem worse, because no one knew whether the old cables were being used or not.
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