Mark,

Is this for a client or for your work?

If it's for your work I'd start looking for a working establishment that has smarter people in charge. If it's an IT turf battle - ditto.

If it's a 1099 type client I'd go find another client.

IOW, are you obligated to do things the hard/uninformed way? If so, what is obligating you to be in this position? It strikes me that resolving that issue is the important one.

JOMO


>...by restrictions. I have been asked to develop an intranet application for the Agency I work for. I can not use ASP or IIS. We use Netscape as our web server software on an NT4 server. About the only tools I can use is HTML and VBScript [or Java Script]. I can create, install and execute COM DLLs and VFP runtimes on the server. I will need to run queries against an Oracle database, and send the results back to the browser. I will also need to allow the user to add/edit records and send back to the Oracle DB. How badly hog-tied am I? Am I wasting my time trying to do this under these limits? Do I have any chance of succesfully doing this? I have 2 West-Wind web sites running quite successfully and very easily. So all these restrictions are very disappointing knowing I could do this quickly and easily if I did not have these restrictions. TIA!