FineLine Charge Card

[Fairlight]

Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Larry Hoover been jivin' 'bout like:
>      Has anyone evaluated the new FineLine PC ChargeCard program from
>      Sound Ideas? It looks like you can run PC credit card software from
>      inside of filePro on Unix and get the results back in a text file to
>      put in filePro fields.  I've use UNIX-based credit card processing
>      (Monetra now, Verisign no longer Unix) but this seems to eliminate
>      worrying about properly storing the credit card data (encrypting
>      numbers, etc.) to meet the new rules because the PC software does it
>      all.

I just read the specs, and you want to read it very carefully.  It requires
CC processing software on a Windows box.  It's middleware between the *nix
box and the software on the Windows box.

I don't deny it has a place in some solutions, but it's not what I would
personally call optimal architecture.  It's certainly nothing I would go
out of my way to set up as a new solution.  I'd write custom code on *nix
far before I'd farm CC processing out to a Windows box.

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