B) Responses in alphabetical order (internal use only) 
BIOLINK V1.5  
Dear Anton, 
It s good to hear you are working on a survey of software packages.  It will be very helpful to have this information in a single place. 
Regarding your specific questions concerning BioLink, you ve done a very good job finding information from our web site.  I ve  
corrected and added to this information below: 
  > Availability and cost 
Freely available (send email to ento biolink@csiro.au) 
  > Limitations to scalability 
n/a, DBMS is Microsoft SQL Server (tested successfully to 4 million specimens) 
  > Computing platform limitations or specialization 
Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, client software has been sucessfully installed on an Apple Macintosh G3 running PC Soft Windows 
  > Specialization by taxonomic group 
All taxa 
  > Contact information and URL 
Dr. Steve Shattuck 
CSIRO Entomology 
P.O. Box 1700 
Canberra  ACT  2601  
Australia 
Phone:  +61  2  6246 4272  
Fax:    +61  2  6426 4264 
Email: ento biolink@csiro.au 
URL: http://www.ento.csiro.au/biolink/software.html 
  > Data import capabilities and/or limitations 
Import wizard imports from various formats such as tab delimited text files, Excel spreadsheets, Access, and DBF databases 
  > Data export capabilities and/or limitations 
Raw data export via user defined report module.  Query Tool results can be directly exported to delimited text, XML (two formats), 
Excel, Word, Access and RTF. 
  > URL or other source of database model documentation (tables,   > attributes, relationships, and their semantics) 
http://www.ento.csiro.au/biolink/development.html 
We would like to ask you to correct these information as well as completing the following items which we could not see from your 
website. 
  > Estimate of size and distribution of user base 
Approximately 250 active users in 65 countries. 
  > URL or other source of user documentation 
Full documentation (online help as well as 140 page User Guide) supplied with the software 
If you need additional details please let me know. 
Thanks, Steve 
Steve Shattuck 
CSIRO Entomology 
Steve.shattuck@csiro.au 
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