<snip> but I doubt the manager would have the appetite to spend good money just to be able to read the very old data. </snip>
<snip from your website> CIBC History The largest merger of two chartered banks in Canadian history happened on June 1, 1961 - The Canadian Bank of Commerce (established 1867) and the Imperial Bank of Canada (established 1875) merged to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Its history spans nearly two centuries and is full of adventure and enterprise. </snip> So, you're not exactly short of a cent or two then .... If the manager wants to access the data he's probably going to have to spend some money, good or bad 1. If nobody knows the structure of the data then unless it's very simple migrating to another dbms it will take a bit of time and money - the mechanics aren't difficult but restructuring could be. You then have to let your users access it without the old application s/w 2. Keeping it in Universe is simple, you just have to get onto an up-to-date platform. It is possible (but unlikely) that the old version of Universe will run on an updated version of the same OS but that may cost you for proprietary h/w & OS, alternatively get a new version of universe to run on Windoze or Linux and minimise the h/w & OS costs (sorry, just joking about Windoze). How many concurrent users do you need, what make / model of hardware is it on now, what OS and what version Do you know what version of Universe it is running now (or how to find out ?) Piers ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
