calmI'm half way there already...
At the office, I've become sort of a point man... "Christopher, examine this and that idea for possible further development... and report back within a week..." ... so, we have this vendor bound system... with proprietary interface for processing web pages for online ad booking, some bizarre ISAPI executable.. on a off limits server, that we can't check or apply updates... for all we know it could be a plain vanilla W2k/IIS installation with security holes large like small countries... it's behind a firewall though... the backend is an Oracle DBS, dunno which version, but I'm about to figure out how to do all the interfacing and graphics manipulation in perl/php/gd on a linux box instead... to get out of the arm-lock the vendor are holding us in... the user group of said software are required to pay huge amounts for small adjustments... I can understand the vendor too, but they should at least supply a definition of methods to interface with their DB, I couldn't care less about their precious DB, as long as I can interface with it...
