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When I started looking around for good Palm programs to use for WASH scouting last year, I found Pendragon and thought it looked excellent. But then I saw the price. Because we wanted to let other teams use our software, we needed something free. So we used HanDBase. We bought the licensed software ($30 or so) for development and handed out the trial version to other teams who scouted with us. It required extra effort to get the data in our database and to avoid conflicts or duplicate data, but it was a great project for 2 students and myself to work on.

Hopefully we'll get rid of third party Palm databases all together this year. I've been teaching myself Palm OS programming off & on for the past couple of months. Initial proof of concept work looks promising, and I hope to have a simple database done within a few weeks.

Mike