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| | Select the best gage management software package for your company. |
 | | Stay away from packages that rely on obscure, unheard-of database technology or "something that we wrote ourselves." Developing a good, reliable database engine is no simple task and should be left to the few companies that specialize in it, such as Microsoft, Oracle and IBM. |
 | | If a package doesn't support ad hoc or custom-designed reports, you might be able to use an external report-writing utility such as Crystal Reports, Microsoft Access or Microsoft Excel, as long as the calibration software uses a database in a supported file format. |
 | | Sometimes, a formally reliable software package can become unstable after another unrelated package is installed, usually because the new package overwrites a shared software library component file, such as a dll or ocx file. |
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