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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (1759)	4/25/1998 1:23:00 PM
From: Johnathan C. Doe	Respond to of 5944

My understanding is that original SI built their own database from scratch and then later moved into SQL. Brad is the tech weenie and from what I understand the only tech weenie they had behind SI. I assume he is a CS graduate from around 1995 period. Jeff was the deal-man. The proprietary database deal was that the relational DB's were too slow at the time for what they wanted to spend. Like I say; if you are a techie person, you can see this quite clearly; the nuts and bolts behind SI are simple stuff. This was not a complex website. It just happened to be one of the first of the next generation DB interactive websites that are now starting to be ubiquitous with the introduction of developers tools for this type of thing. Look at Allaire and Cold Fusion 3.0. You can take a tool like that and throw together SI in short order. You build the database structure in Access 97; import it into SQL for speed; set up a firewall, put the server in a T3 ISP and use remote access tools to manage the server; and boom you have SI on the web in no time. Simple. I prefer the Visual Studio and ASP route because it is faster in execution and you can have more control over it for customization. Cold Fusion gives you the the benefit of have built in internet commerce modules such as CyberCash and Open Markets if I recall and some other commerce modules. That could make a real difference. The way I would have done it would have been to have used CyberCoin and charge $.01 a post; something like that. I don't know what the charge point that would be need is exactly but you get the idea. Registration would include setting up the CyberCoin accounts. These brothers made a ton of money with next to nobody involved. This was a garage/basement operation.