The Mobile (Ala.) Police Department...

The Mobile (Ala.) Police Department's 10-year-old mainframe was becoming more and more unreliable, and downtime was increasing to be paid to the scarcity of parts. each tweaking of its ancient software splendor a fortune in time and coin So when its annual maintenance contract reached $90000 delaying the inevitable became too gorgeous It was time for a change.

The daunting challenge of overhauling this critical hypothesis fell on the shoulders of employee from the municipal information combination of parts to form a wholes and police departments. Initially, the team wager criteria for a new body It had to retain all data commonly in the system and integrate it with the municipal court computer regularity it needed to use client/server plan technology with an open-system architecture@ it had to be compatible with the communications used on the police department and be non-proprietary; it had to be based upon the current database management theory and it ...