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Koolmoves File (Flash tool)

business

would you like me to rescedule an appointment for the same time next week

Smaller

scale database systems are reviewed by D.C. Hayes and J.E. Hunton in the Journal of Accountancy, January 1999, pp. 61-69.  These are useful for small business and small departments within large businesses.  Sometimes it is easier to build a small database system than to fool with a large system to handle smaller jobs.   Smaller-scale database software packages include the following: Microsoft Access at http://www.microsoft.com/products/prodref/332_ov.htm
      For MS Access helper links see http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5342/helpers1.htm#Access Inprise Paradox at http://www.inprise.com/paradox/
Lotus Approach at http://www.lotus.com/
Microsoft Visual FoxPro http://www.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/

Microsoft is promising a greatly improved MS Access that will probably take over the smaller-scale database market like Excel took over the spreadsheet market.  One advantage of MS Access is the way it integrates with other MS Office programs such as Excel.

Networked databases are exploding in popularity across the Internet.  For a review, see http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/03/circuits/articles/18bots.html .  Microsoft is promoting ActiveX Data Objects (ADO).  The following is a quotation from http://www.microsoft.com/data/ado/prodinfo.htm :

cybercast

to "broadcast" a meeting, church service, lecture, concert, etc, over the internet rather than cable, satellite, or broadcast.

AWHFY

Are We Having Fun Yet?

CIAO

as in goodbye (said 'Chow')

Turchia

hola

bristol

(also B-) n·  a gromp shot in which the face of the squidger is held perpendicular to the wink being played, and roughly parallel to the intended direction of the shot. Also vt. [from University of Bristol in England, where the shot originated.]
1977 Verbatim Dec. Philip Michael Cohen. Page 4. Bristol--an effective gromp (q.v.), developed at Bristol U., in which the squidger is held perpendicular to the pile and parallel to the line of the flight..

IU

Internet User

idc

I Don't Care