New from General Mills: Frackenberries
So I was charged (read: hired) as part of an ongoing project with finding a way to setup a database of contact information for about 1000+ people which is being maintained by 3 people across the eastern seaboard.
Looked at Filemaker.
Looked at Filemaker Hosted Databases.
Looked at Mac OS X Server.
Looked at Mac OS X Server on a Mac Mini.
Looked at Mac OS X Server on a Mac Mini running LDAP.
Estimated cost: $1500-$1600.
Sure it’d be a more expensive solution, short term. But no monthly fee. Pay for itself in a few years.
Talking it over with the guy who hired me today, when he stumbles onto the fact that .Mac users can share (read/write) an address book with other .Mac users.
We’re all .Mac users already.
So, to sum up, after taking two weeks to research it, including calling Apple and telling them what I wanted to do (wherein they said nothing about .Mac having this capability), including posting on Apple’s OS X Server discussion forum, I came up with a hugely complex and expensive solution.
He, on the other hand, found an essentially free solution in about six minutes.
So please, a little respect, for I am Costanza, Lord of the Idiots.
