Paul Gibson writes that he is working for Technology Service Corporation in Silver Spring, MD, doing Access database programming, and hardware installation and repair. Paul was a Computer Science student here before transferring to a Baptist school in Texas. He is working with optical data storage and retrieval. He says that if the documents are on disk, Oracle can access them immediately. If they are archived, optically only, Oracle can still access them in half a minute.
Insurance companies are major customers, to provide rapid response to clients who call.
Brad estimates that the job will be done by 1998, hence in plenty of time. These days it is four programmers doing software testing, Powerbuilder and SQA Test Suite being his two main tools. I'm now programming with Director 5.0 to create interactive multimedia applications. We are moving all of our databases to DB2. The Database class that I took at Messiah comes in quite handy.