[sdiy] Another proposal on top of Another proposal.

[charlie lamm]

I highly recommend MySQL.  (Unix or Windows, both versions are good).

http://www.mysql.com/downloads/index.html

BTW, you can easily write a web front end for your inventory app using
PHP:

http://www.php.net/downloads.php



On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Batz Goodfortune wrote:

> Y-ellow JB 'n' all.
>
> At 12:12 PM 9/8/02 +0000, jbv wrote:
> >Recently Batz suggested to put online infos about
> >chips available for swap.
>
> Actually I didn't. I merely seconded the motion. Any gathering of
> information such as this is probably helpful. So long as the benefit
> outweighs the work involved.
>
> However! While we're on the subject. I've been looking for a small database
> program to keep track of my own chip inventory. Anyone got any suggestions?
> I'm not really big on databases and am yet to find a friendly one but all
> this talk of doing such things made me think that this might be something
> worth looking into.
>
> So far I've tried four shareware inventory type databases but all of them
> have been pretty awful. This was after short-listing them from about 20 or
> 30 candidates on various shareware repositories. Not a single one could
> import a comma delimited list. And if the authors think I'm gonna pay good
> money for the privilege of punching in the details of a couple of thousand
> chips (again) they're sadly mistaken.
>
> The problem with selecting a database from a user's point of view is that
> these things hold your data captive. If you do all that work and then
> discover they're crap, you'd just blown a whole heap of time you could have
> better spent. And of course, the only way to find out they're crap is by
> having them filled with a critical mass of working data and using them.
>
> So before I do that, and be bothered with yet another failed database
> system, has anyone got any suggestions for a small, cheap database program
> that's not going to waste my time?
>
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> The other thing I was going to mention along these lines was a start-up we
> have down here that matches buyers with sellers to achieve good prices. If
> that's an adequate description?
>
> Essentially what it does is form buying pools. Groups of people who,
> between them, have a larger buying power. The example I recall were people
> buying furniture. Even though they all wanted different things, buy walking
> through the door as a group and buying at the same time, they collectively
> saved 10s of thousands. And this wasn't a particularly large group. 10 or
> 15 people tops.
>
> I think similar things have been mentioned here before but I thought I'd
> put this forward because, whilst we may be small scale buyers individually,
> when you put us all together, we must buy thousands of dollars worth per
> month. Well OK I don't buy very much these days but still, collectively, we
> on the list, probably do.
>
> My point being that some distributor or other would be inclined to give a
> substantial discount were a group of people to approach them as a single
> entity.
>
> If that idea was expanded beyond the borders of Synth-DIY, then not only
> would our individual costs be lower, but it may also allow us enough volume
> to approach manufacturers direct. "Yes we'll take 20 tubes of 13700s thanks."
>
> You get the idea.
>
> So I thought it worth mentioning in case anyone wanted to run with it.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
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