Scanning and Retrieval of Images - not VLIDB

Dear All, I'm sure I am not the first to want to scan correspondence from clients and be able to store images and retrieve and display from a number of networked PCs. So I would welcome your views on possible ways to achieve this goal. The requirements are straight forward enough - the ability to control the scanning and storage of the images under the clients they relate too and then to be able to retrieve, display and possibly annotate the images before printing, if required. Storage requirements are modest - initial estimate 25 Gb but ongoing at an even smaller rate of approximately 2.5 GB per year. The data does not permit very much OCR. [ Jack - can I coin the term SIDB :) ] Would appreciate your comments on Plexus, Class libraries for New Era for handling images or any other alternatives. Also as the amount of storage required is modest what would be the implications of using Raid storage arrays, purely for the blobspaces, rather than have the additional costs of going Optical. The current system Informix Tools 4.13.UD1 and Informix OnLine 5.04.UC1 on a Sun SS20 running Solaris 2.4. [ Awaiting upgrade ] Thanks in advance Peter +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Peter K. Botcherby, Guys Hospital, London, UK. Tel +44 (0) 171 9554648 | | p.botcherby@umds.ac.uk Fax +44 (0) 171 9554644 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+