[Sussex] Additional to "John's stupid question"

[Steve Dobson]

Hi John

On 13 October 2003 at 08:41 John D. wrote:
> It's really a case of identifying the necessary tools for the 
> job, then learning how to use them - after all I have a copy
> of office 2k, but would really prefer to avoid proprietary app's.

Consider how Clare will want to use the system.  If she works in
"Windows Land" then having the database on one of your Linux partitions
is not going to make it available.
 
> I figure that if I can scan the paperwork in albeit actual magazine
> articles or line drawing work sheet's, then I can always do any ocr
> or image editing later, as and when Clare needs a specific doc/image.

But if all you have is a set of scanned images how are you going to 
know that there is an article on digital file?

Steve