From owner-freebsd-isp  Sun Mar  9 05:20:33 1997
Return-Path: <owner-isp>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA20398
          for isp-outgoing; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 05:20:33 -0800 (PST)
Received: from smople.thehub.com.au (smople.thehub.com.au [203.17.162.10])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA20391
          for <isp@freebsd.org>; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 05:20:28 -0800 (PST)
Received: (from richard@localhost) by smople.thehub.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA16031; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 23:20:13 +1000
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 23:20:13 +1000 (EST)
From: Richard J Uren <richard@thehub.com.au>
To: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>
cc: dror@dnai.com, isp@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ISP Billing Software
In-Reply-To: <199703090908.DAA00635@shell.futuresouth.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970309231221.14491O-100000@smople.thehub.com.au>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk


On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Tim Tsai wrote:

>   I agree with you completely and that's why I had no trouble putting
> together an NT machine to run SQL Server and Platypus.  It solves my
> problems TODAY.
> 
>   Tim

We have 4 FreeBSD servers, an office with win95 PC's and an NT server
with Platypus & SQL Server.

Tim makes a number of good points.  Really you just need some software
to do the job.  Platypus does the job - Its SQL based so adhoc reporting
is easy, its client server so you can have 5 (or N) people doing things at 
once and the best thing is I didn't have to write it. 

I think it will be a long while before something gets developed in 
Postgres with X.

Cheers
Richard