Re: [SLUG] Am I baying for the moon?

[Kevin Waterson <kevin@nospam.oceania.net>]

Howard Lowndes wrote:

> I have a client who wants to store a variety of document types in job
> folders.  Some are (cough) .doc, .xls, some are .jpg, .html, .gif.  There
> could be any mixture of these in any given job folder.
>
> He has grandiose ideas about indexing these and being able to full up
> documents that match certain search criteria.  Frankly I think he is being
> unrealistic, but I have to jump the hoops anyway.
>
> Is there anything Linux based that comes within a bull's roar of what he
> wants; or even something that runs on that other OS.

We have done several of these with open source items with good results.
your biggest expense down the open source path is installation and training

Kevin


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