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Aug 04, 2008 11:41 pm
Aug 04, 2008 11:41 pm
Subject: Re: Prototype on-line Club spares ordering facility
Hi David,
It's from Actinic http://www.actinic.com/ . I chose it because it integrates very well into the Club spares Sage line 50 system which is used for the accounts. Both use MS Access databases. As far as I know, it makes extensive use PERL scripts.
During my career at BT Labs at Martlesham Heath, I managed to avoid getting too deeply embroiled in writing these things. Instead I focussed much more on studying the dynamics of the liberalised telecom market place. Nowadays, as demonstrated by the availability of Commercial Off The Shelf software (COTS) such as Actinic, no-one can avoid middleware in one form or another, and BT makes great use of Indian software developers. So do Actinic and their back office support team in India is excellent. My main development activity is to configure the Actinic features, and it is veryconfigurable. My favourite control is 'revert to factory settings' .
I have enjoyed learning how to use this tool. It behaves nicely and complements the pleasure I get from working on and driving my vintage cars. There is a lot more to learn (with both things).
Colin M 34
Hi David,
It's from Actinic http://www.actinic.com/ . I chose it because it integrates very well into the Club spares Sage line 50 system which is used for the accounts. Both use MS Access databases. As far as I know, it makes extensive use PERL scripts.
During my career at BT Labs at Martlesham Heath, I managed to avoid getting too deeply embroiled in writing these things. Instead I focussed much more on studying the dynamics of the liberalised telecom market place. Nowadays, as demonstrated by the availability of Commercial Off The Shelf software (COTS) such as Actinic, no-one can avoid middleware in one form or another, and BT makes great use of Indian software developers. So do Actinic and their back office support team in India is excellent. My main development activity is to configure the Actinic features, and it is veryconfigurable. My favourite control is 'revert to factory settings' .
I have enjoyed learning how to use this tool. It behaves nicely and complements the pleasure I get from working on and driving my vintage cars. There is a lot more to learn (with both things).
Colin M 34