Their business profile states 23 employees and revenue of $4 million. That's the kind of company that ought to have the resources to hire an IT guy for a week or two to rebuild the data base. There's gotta be a big old book somewhere in the file cabinet that mirrors the hard drive info. What about (we assume a bunch of) on-hand inventory? Do they take inventory every year as old Uncle Sam requires for tax reasons? Isn't there a separate data base that they use for that task? And what happens to the 23 employees? Unemployment? Put them to work, walking down the aisles and writing down the part numbers and nomenclature of everything that's on the shelves.
Throw away $4 M because of a reparable part of the infrastructure? It's sad and unfortunate that it happened, but they could surely bounce back. Other businesses have suffered a lot worse events, like a warehouse burning down.
Sorry to sound so optimistic, but my career has been based on trouble-shooting and recovery. I'm sure there are people out there who can help get it going again.
