Welcome to Rush Flat Consulting! Rush Flat Consulting is run by Brian Speirs. Brian was Chief Economist for Meat & Wool New Zealand for 15 years, and formed Rush Flat Consulting in 2004. Consulting work was put on hold in 2006 when Brian went to work with the NZ Institute of Economic Research. Now, Brian has moved to the UK, and is working with CACI in their Twickenham office. In the mean time, this website still has some useful information. In particular, see the links to agri-business, economic, and computing resources, and also the software downloads for multi-value databases. Getting Started in OpenQM A common question in any forum relating to multi-value databases is: "Where is the documentation telling me how to use this software?" Well, it is here now! Part 1 of Getting Started in OpenQM is now available. This covers installation, configuration, a brief introduction to the editors available, and a comprehensive introduction to QMQuery. A second part of the book (yet to be written) will cover use of the QMBasic programming language, linking OpenQM to Visual Basic, some advanced uses of QMQuery, and advanced features of AccuTerm. The timetable for part two is not yet known - but figure on sometime in 2009. Installing the GPL version of OpenQM on Ubuntu Linux is (supposed to be) easy isn't it? For the mere mortals amongst us, I have written up some notes on how to install the GPL version of OpenQM on Ubuntu 7.10. This has now been updated to include Ubuntu 8.04, and installing the QMClient and QMSrvr services. See the downloads page for more information. UPDATED - SysCtrl Account v1.10 SysCtrl is a control account for multi-value databases. It incorporates previous utilities offered here such as 'IA.Reformat', File-Dump, and Import. SysCtrl is now at version 1.10 and now includes utilities letting you transfer accounts between multi-value databases. See the downloads page for more details. Brian Speirs