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COTS Workshop Registration System

Does anyone have any experience with any COTS systems for managing workshops and the associated registrations, courses, communications, etc.? We have a home-built Perl system that is about 8 years old and is currently embedded as an iframe in a SharePoint portal site (externally facing). Needless to say, it isn't integrated into our sit...

How to Deal With Fear of Custom Dev

I'm dealing with an issue with my current employer that has seriously made me consider seeking employment elsewhere. They are under the impression that 100% of custom development should be eliminated and replaced with COTS products, such as SharePoint. While I realize that this is not a realistic expectation, I've found it impossible t...

COTS vs. Custom / Build vs. Buy: Decision Tree and Best Practices

Background: I work at a company with a large SAP investment, and we also have dozens of large .NET systems (mostly internally for engineering systems), and Java platforms (mostly for external web applications). As such, we have large development shops on ABAP, C#, and JEE. Question: In short, We need a better way to determine when Com...

Recommendations for CANOpen stack implementations?

I need an off-the-shelf CANOpen stack implementation as part of a Windows XP Embedded software solution I'm developing. Does anyone have any suggestions beyond IXXAT's offerings? ...

Does anyone know of a good video library script?

Hello, Our company now has over 40 tutorial videos and I'm looking for a video gallery app. Something that would be similar to: http://tv.telerik.com/ or http://umbraco.org/documentation/videos/for-site-builders/datatypes/using-datatypes-that-have-prevalues Does anyone know of any PHP or asp.net solutions? I'd rather not re-invent th...