Re: HP Software

[Ed Wilds <EHSADM3%UCONNVM.bitnet@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>]

On Wed, 2 Feb 94 07:38:25 -0600 Sue Dupre said:
>Dale,
>I appreciated your response to my inquiry about HP software.  We are a fairly
>small HP group overloaded with work as it is.  I want to make us more efficient
>and not burden us with more work, especially work that's not directly HP re-
>lated.  The programs we do have were developed on an as-needed basis by various
>people who have worked for us and all are somewhat quirky and unrelated to each
>other (some are in Dataease, others are in R-base - depends on what the person
>doing the programming was comfortable with at the time).  I've had one of our
>technicians developing a radiation-producing machine inventory program - he
>started two years ago, working on it as he could, and it's still not in a form
>I'm happy with.
>
>So the upshot is that if I'm going to get this done in my lifetime, paying for
>a reasonably priced commercial program is starting to look good.  I do appre-
>ciate the advice of the people who have managed to organize their databases on
>their own, but practically it's not going to work for us in the near future.
>
>Thanks for your offer to collect data on what people are using.  I'll let you
>know what we decide to do and would be happy to hear what you find out.
>
>Sue Dupre/Health Physicist/Princeton University

Sue:
  You might want to try to hire a student to do the programing for you.  That
is what I have done at The University of Connecticut.  It has been pretty
effective in getting the programs in the forms that we like.  This also leaves
your staff free to do HP work.  Just a thought.

Ed Wilds
RSO, The University of Connecticut