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This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] We use ImageView and its internet version and save images to optical disks. Works pretty good. Index is stored on the AS400. -----Original Message----- From: Brad Jensen [mailto:brad@elstore.com] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 10:09 AM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: Document Imaging Systems > ~~~Users of said systems are encouraged to reply to list or > > Bill, > > http://www.realvisionsoftware.com has my vote. > > useable Documentation. > excellent support. > Good indexing system. > built for heavy duty use. > Security choices. > We have set up the internet viewer and it works like a champ. > > > Mark Villa in Charleston SC I am not a user, I am a vendor, here is my two cents I think for report and image archiving, you may want to have the server be a PC, unless you are going to dedicate an AS/400 to it. (Not everyone agrees with this, especially if you plan for your application to start small and stay small). The reason is both storage cost and eventual conversion cost. You can store about a terabyte of AS/400 reports (one hundred fifty million pages, or 15 million dollars of avoided cost) on a PC hard drive for $300 - and mirror it for another $300. You can easily copy that off on CD for 29 cents per CD, or DVD-R (which is still about $8 a DVD-R disk, but that will come down.) And the drives that are coming will be cheaper and faster and bigger. As your storage grows day by day, backing it up to tape becomes more and more of a chore. And then five or ten years from now, when you have to convert the data to whatever new format is needed, you don't have one save set to convert, you have thousands of days. You will already be busy with your most mission-critical conversion. Do you need the extra work? Meanwhile on a PC you can read a file that was made in 1982. As long as your PC-based report server will let you access the reports through green screens (without reuploading them to the AS/400) it makes sense to do the job on the PC. You also have the advantage that the PC is available when the AS/400 may not be (and I don't mean to suggest hardware failure on the AS/400.) PC hard drives are very reliable now (actually it was IBM that had the most recent recall on hard drives.) That being said, there are people who are very happy with AS/400 based document imaging systems. Brad Jensen www.elstore.com LaserVault - see the demo at www.elstore.com/lvuc.htm _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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