I'm at work today.

It's quite important for me to be in here today.

We use a document scanning, indexing, optical character recognition, database, everything type piece of software at the place where I work. The system was originally installed in 1998 and has not had any upgrades since then. It started to become clunky, so I started looking in to how to improve the system. I started speaking to our support vendor for this application. Turns out we are paying them a lot of money every month and not receiving the best level of support because the versions we are running are so old.

The software is huge and complex, and I don't know that much about it to be honest. I have been spending a lot of time with the users who use the application(s) and finding out what they do, and what problems they are having. I have learnt a lot!

There are 2 scanning systems. The scanning systems use 'image files' from a location on a server. The server is on its last legs and needs constant reboots, otherwise the server becomes incredibly slow. It has been identified as a disk problem so far... anyway... there is also the IBM mainframe system which contains licensing information, and holds the scanned/indexed documents in a large database.

To upgrade this system costs around £7500.

It has all been approved by the finance director, and the guy is on-site to upgrade everything today. It's going really well so far.

If it works, it's going to make me look shit hot!

If it doesn't then it's probably going to get me the sack.

McLuck required.

Good luck!!!

Good luck!

Thanks

It just started going wrong... could be here for hours now.

good luck Aaron

it wouldnt go wrong, you designed it

GL BIG GUY

hope i'm not too late

Going wrong?

It started going right again, and it won the game.

Awesome!

Can you give us any more specifics?

Glad to hear victory ensued ^^

so no news breaking headlines of one man destroying his entire compony?

Or the latest military AI spawned from the EQ 2 overloaded scanning server that aaron has full control over.

Imagine a computer AI randomly appearing and wreaking haoc >:D.

Fixed.