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It was a disaster, and after struggling for a few years, his successor installed an off-the-peg commercial system. They went ahead with someone else who was a general programmer. They still wanted dBase and Oracle, and seemed to not understand why I wouldn't take a nice government job (I'd been a Scientific Civil Servant before my last salaried job). I thought that as they (like almost all labs) were using spreadsheets extensively, they could continue to use them for local manipulation and display, provided that all of the results were secured and available through a database and that they should invest in a decent report writer (Not Crystal!) for printed output.

They asked why - I told them that in my professional opinion their stuff would be orphaned by the commercial supplier. They offered me a full-time job at deputy director level (Formal interview panels - Apparently they had heard of them), I said no. Experience had shown that once you move away from a 'standard' commercial system with your own modifications, future updates would strand you - They wanted to use their in-house skills which were dBase/Clipper for a front-end (It was the early 90s and dBase was approaching obsolescence) and somehow cobble it onto a new commercial Oracle system - I politely told them 'No'.

The boss, and a panel, asked for a solution to run across 5 laboratories in different parts of the country - My response, based on writing almost identical systems from scratch, and also installing commercial systems was: Either write their own, and staff it appropriately to look after changes and maintenance themselves or, buy a commercial system and adapt their operation to match it, and not to install their own custom stuff.

I was offered a full time government job to create a Lab Information System. You can advise that something is not suitable for purpose, and if that is not accepted walk away. Your mind is made-up, but you can indeed replicate SQLite with commercial and FOSS packages: Dqlite - (If you don't mind using Canonical) rqlite - SymmetricDS (but more for replicating to bigger databases) aergolite - (I have no idea if it's any good) LiteSync - (seems to be pricey). My idea of a professional is someone who can work within the constraints that exist. 'not the backing store any professional should use for a reliable web service' Horses for courses.

#Anita terminal emulator login macro install

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