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SIMS holds a variety of data relating to a schools students, staff, exam results and finances. Third party support is provided locally via ScoMIS or nationally from CAPITA. Its fairly unpopular among those of us that have to provide support as it uses a mixture of legacy DOS based modules and more modern Win32 applications. During its development cycle no consistent policy on SQL implementations seems to have existed so different modules use different vendors for the database back-end. As a result several extra applications have to be periodically run to shunt data from one module to another. You are required to install a client on all workstations and set several environmental variables before you can connect to the system. Commonly requested features for a replacement Student Information Management System include... * LEA level Super-scoping, so users can be easily moved between schools without having to manually update their records. * Active Directory/LDAP integration. * Web based option to avoid client installs. * Single vendor solution for the db back-end, be it MSDE with the option of upgrading to SQL2000 or MySQL/Postgres etc. I also support CMIS, which provides similar functionality to SIMS but provides a web based front-end and uses SQL2000 for the db. SIMS .net is in the process of being rolled out at the moment, which aims to fix some of the long standing issues with SIMS. Many schools will not have the option to move away from SIMS as they will be tied into support contracts with ScoMIS. SIMS also provides some specific functionality for uploading and downloading information to local gov. Regards david -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.