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11/02/2008:
See Library of articles on software development. These are simple and helpful "how-to" recipe based documents to get you going fast and painlessly.

02/27/2008:
Sun acquires MySQL. MySQL will remain just as open, fast, free...Sun to take MySQL to next level of scalability and performance by tapping into Sun's $14 billion

01/01/2008:
Joel Thompson signs up as author of Northern Ca. Oracle User Group developers corner.

10/12/2006:
On Nov 2nd - Joel Thompson will speak at Northern Ca. Oracle User Group on Java/JSP and Oracle Backend Systems. Basics of JSP, and some discussion of common Frameworks
9/13/2006:
On Oct 9th - Joel Thompson giving Beginners Java Programming Course. 3hr course covering fundamentals by real examples. See complete description here - don't wait signup now - go to contact us page.
8/29/2006:
On Sept 12th - Joel Thompson will speak a SAC Java User Group about Hibernate 3 technology.
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4/10/2006:
Red Hat to acquire JBoss.
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2/2006:
Oracle announces free Database! Oracle delivers fully-functional Oracle Standard Edition DB (called Express Edition) with very reasonable restriction for free commercial use! Click here for details (opens new window)

1/2006:
Joel Thompson to deliver series of presentations on Hibernate technology.
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1/2006:
Sun and Oracle renew alliance to provide cost-affordable servers & software.
11/2005
RHINO Signs contract to deliver software for the state of California Legislative Data center.
11/05: RHINO delivers on J2EE product for Highwire Systems.
11/03:
Sun Microsystems Showcases Java(TM) Integration Suite at Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) 2005 Blue Health IT Symposium
09/05:
RHINO signs contract for developing mobile solution with J2ME.

RHINO Systems Inc.ServicesWeb Applications
RHINO has already built web applications that can instantly integrate with your website. By using our existing technology, you can save thousands of dollars in custom software development and take advantage of production quality solutions to meet your website requirements today!
Comments/Feedback webpage

User supplies their email, and selects a category of what the comment is on (the list of categories would be Customer by the website owner (WO) and then enters text into a textbox. They then hit the button "SEND COMMENTS". The comments are delivered to the WO in EMAIL.

Price:

  • $5/ month
  • $60 or buy it
  • additional features:
    • store comments/info in database for easy lookup by WO. - add $5/ month or $60 for buy it. (requires a database)
Customer Resource Management (CRM)

Web page for customers to enroll their information and be managed by the database. Information includes: first & last name, multiple phone#, multiple addresses, multiple emails, optionally a username and password to login to the website to get to protected information. Search the database from your authorized webpage. Extract database into a DBF file or CSV file format.

May be used in conjunction with "Ordering System", "Photo Gallery", "Video Conferencing", "Web Logging", "Chat Service".

(requires a database)
Price:

  • $30/ month extra
  • $400 buy it
  • additional features:
    • Extract database into a DBF file or CSV file format. Add $5/month or $100 for "buy it"
Photo gallery

Download your pictures onto the website, and the next day you'll have a photo-album. You can password protect your photo-album, so that only the people you want can access the photo album

(limited to 5 per albums , with 50 photos each)
Price:

  • $20/month
  • $300 buy it
  • additional features:
    • Download a slide-show presentation & 5/month or buy for $6
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Calendaring/Scheduling System

Schedule all your client in your online calendaring system. Customers can view a Calendar, and pick a free slot to request an appointment. You are notified in email, and the request is logged in a database for viewing in a queue of requests. You approve or deny the request, with an optional explanation.

(requires a database)
Price:

  • $40/month
  • $500 buy it
  • additional features:
    • Downloadable calendar to customers PALM Pilot.
      • $10/month
      • $150 buy it
    • Email reminders to client.
      • $10/month
      • $150 buy it
Product listing

Customers can search and browns by category your products online. You can specify the name, description, category, model, color, size, price.

(requires a database)
 Price:

  • $30/month
  • $400 buy it
  • additional features
    • include thumbnails and pictures
      $10/month or Buy it for $150.
Ordering System
(requires a product listing)

Clients can view your products listings, availability (on hand inventory, ordering estimated time or backorder time) of product, and order directly from your website. They use their shopping cart to accumulate your products (along with special orders), and then check-out, where their order is totaled up with tax and shipping. The client is then asked for Name, Address, Phone, Billing information, and shipping instructions. All this information is stored in the database of "orders" for you to fulfill. As each order comes in you are notified via email (default), pages or fax. You view the queue, and approve them.

Price:

  • $40/month
  • $500 buy it
  • additional features:
    • WO notifications by fax
      • $5/month
      • $50 buy it
    • WO notifications by pager
      • $5/month
      • $50 buy it
    • Online payment processing (visa, AMEX).
      • $30/month
      • buy it for $300
        (plus applicable visa & gateway fees).
    • Email statuses to clients (new order, order processed, shipped, fulfilled).
      • $10/month
      • $150 buy it
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FAQ listing

Clients choose a category and submit their question through the website. You receive an email and the question is logged in a database. You review the list of question, and them online. The answer is automatically delivered to the questioning person via Email. You can choose to allow the question and answer to be posted to the website.

(Requires a database)
Price:

  • $20 / month
  • $30 buy it
  • Additional features:
    • Allow follow ups and comments to FAQ -$7.50/month or $80 buy it
Events

Show your upcoming events online. Events automatically expire after they have passed, so they won't list on your website. Information listed is: subject, description, line-items, location, time, date, additional information.

(Requires a database)
Price: $20/month

  • $250 buy it.
  • Additional feature:
    • Downloadable events to customers PALM Pilot.
    • $10/month
    • $150 buy it
Front page recent news or announcements.

FrontPage will show a small area that has announcements or important information you'd like the customer to see (usually over a small timeframe, like a month or so). You update the announcements on a separate webpage, and it automatically shows up on your website. Format your message however, you'd like with HTML markup.

(Requires a database)
Price:

  • $5/month
  • $60 buy it
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Web log (AKA, blogging)

Commonly known as "blogging", you can log your daily activities, thoughts, or any topics you'd like. You categorize your logs, and they automatically show up on the websites. People can make comments on your log and you review the comments and decide to either show the comments or not.

(Requires a database)
Price:

  • $5/month
  • $60 buy it
Search website

Ability for customers to search your website for web pages that have the keywords that they are looking for.

Price:

  • $5/month
  • $60 buy it.
  • Additional features:
    • Search by categories - $2/month or buy it for $30
Games:  asteroids, tetras, crossword puzzles, chess, and bingo

Put a game on your website to attract more visitors.

Price:

  • $30/month
  • $400 buy it.
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Video conferencing

Would you like to video conference between two computers over the Internet. We have the software that allows you to do this. You download our client software, and register with RHINO'S video relay server. Then your coworker can see your availability on RHINO'S server, and start a video conference with you.

(Requires database, and digital video camera, and audio capabilities)

Customer Service:
You can also use this as tool to display your video to potential clients that may need help with your products/service.

Price:

  • $30/month
  • $400 buy it.
Chat service

Check RHINO'S website to see if your friend is ONLINE, then click to communicate via online CHAT with them. It opens up a textbox for you to type into, and a textarea shows the entire conversation. The recorded conversation shows who made the comment with a timestamp, followed by the comments themselves.

Price:

  • $20/month
  • $300 buy it.

    Additional features:

    - Ability to record conversation and sent transcript via email to participates.
    - $5/month
    - $60 buy it.

Customer Service:
Set up help me button that queues the customer request and then a service representative sees the request and starts up a chat session with customer.

Survey system

You use a authorized access only webpage to fill out your own questions and options that will automatically be shown as a survey on your website. The web-user will fill out your survey, where their results are posted to a database. You can view percentages of how the users responded to your questions.

Price:

  • $50 per survey (lasting a maximum of 2 months per survey).
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Ticker tape

Show a ticket tape (marquee) of realtime information streaming across your frontpage. You can have a series of messages or optionally, realtime feeds from datasources on the web.

  • $10/month
  • $150 buy it.
    • Additional features:
      • Real-time feeds from datasources on web:
        • $10/month
        • $150 buy it
        • $100 setup fee
GIS applications

Show maps of whatever geography or commercial layout you'd like. Drill down on the map and identify on certain features on the map. For example you can map your property, your office space, project locations in California, or your vineyard.ect.

 
(Requires database, ESRI software)

Price per map:

  • $50/month base
  • Additional customization and setup is needed, typical price ranges from $100 - $1,500.
Database

Standard SQL database for storing any information that you may need to collect. Some of the features above require a database.

We use Oracle, SQLServer and MySQL

Price:

  • $75 month for Oracle shared access
  • $75 month for SQLServer
  • $20 month for MySQL shard access
  • You can buy your own Database for the cost of their software.
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GIS ESRI Software

Used to server up maps and track features on the map.
(May require database for feature information)

Price:

  • $50/month
FTP access

You can provide FTP access for others to pick up files from your website. You transfer files to your website, and others can pick them up, or vice-versa.

Price:

  • $5/month

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