If you want your application to be - browser-based - standards-compliant -- works on most computer browsers / platforms - easy to configure - secure -- easy to patch and upgrade on an ongoing basis - modular -- start with core features and easily integrate new features in the future I would look at building it in Drupal. True, there is a learning curve involved to actually do the development, but it is PHP so not at all hard for an existing software developer to grasp. Plus, there is a large and active Drupal community so you can easily get free help, or even hire a local Drupal developer to do the work for you if you don't want to be bothered. Curtis On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Tom Penney <tpenney at gmail.com> wrote: > Forgive the off topic post. I was hoping that someone might have some > advice for me. > > I've been handed a home brew data entry system written in VB6 that is > in need of replacement. Code is poorly commented and the guy who wrote > it can't be found. What I would LIKE to do is start from scratch and > write a nice browser based system using google gears or something like > that but I don't have time. I would think there would be a ton of > stuff available, open or otherwise, as we are not doing anything > unusual. But what I've found seems antiquated and expensive. I was > asked to evaluate some Viking Software stuff which has the features > that we need but, man, low tech, 8 character file names, keyboard > overlays required, etc. > > We process about 10,000 hand written forms a month entered from > scanned images on screen. Each form is entered twice by separate > people and compared for accuracy. some fields are looked up in a > table to auto populate other fields which can then be accepted or > edited. nothing to fancy. Has anyone here run across anything I should > be looking into? > > -- > Tom Penney > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080911/57d9df68/attachment.htm