<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">The Rent Boards Budget and Personnel Committee meeting will be presented the revised proposal from <a href="http://www.softwareag.com/Corporate/products/wm/default.asp ">WebMethods</a> for building a new RTS(Rent Tracking System) Database, after this meeting I will be able to email the group their proposal..<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">their�tentative�date for the meeting is Monday the 28th</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">ATTN: Attached is a City Report report issued June 29, 2009, commissioned by the City of Berkeley's IT Supervising Systems Analyst Keith Skinner, and produced by Software AG, WebMethods Report. �I posted the report here on MegaUpload, cause the Noisebridge list serve kept bouncing me..<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#354258" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><u><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NIJPNELT">http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NIJPNELT</a></u></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">�(they had to send it to me with Gmail because the city server wouldn't allow them to upload a 7.8MB file) they'd probably save tons of money by migrating there email accounts to </span></font><a href="http://sites.google.com" target="_blank" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">sites.google.com</a>, i can send it to you with gmail if megaupload doesn't work for you.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><ul><li>the report projects the total costs at $307K, but I believe it has been�tentatively�negotiated down to $200K..�</li><li>I'm not familiar with these kinda things but this looks ridiculous to me. In my naivete I imagine this could be handled by a google spreadsheet and and account access controlled database viewer with a page view template... Security of the information being handled by paper and pdf back ups of important documents etc.</li>
<ul><li>one valuable feature would be to have a comment section for each account with the rent board/program ex: such as this landlord has been delinquent before. This can't be that complicated, this has got to be basic billing and customer service software.</li>
</ul></ul></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="4"><i>This is the feedback i've gotten so far</i></font></span><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span><ul style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><li style="margin-left:15px">Open Source Software suggestions:�</li><ul><div><li style="margin-left:15px">
a robust database like MySQL or PostgreSQL will take care of keeping track of access control and�replication of other databases (provided you can take SQL dumps,�otherwise it'll have to be the same software).</li></div>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">PostgreSQL (if some/all of the information is not for public consumption or security is otherwise�</span><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px">a concern) or SQLite</span></li>
</ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:12px">front end viewer like</span></font>�PHPMyAdmin (a very insecure, but functional PHP app --just don't make it public on the internet), or a Django project (the�built-in admin console has a very simple Create/Read/Update/Delete�functionality for each row.</li>
</ul><li style="margin-left:15px">requests for more info:�<br></li><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">RFP<br></li><div><li style="margin-left:15px">numbers of fields and records,�<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">
bandwidth requirements,�<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">administrative roles,</li><li style="margin-left:15px">platform information such as�<br></li></div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">type of host(s)<br></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">operating systems</li></ul></ul></ul></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div>