didiergm@gmail.com (Didier Gasser-Morlay) writes:
> Chris,
>
> Thanks for your input and analysis. Something I did not make quite
> clear, and I apologize for this, it that although there are sales
> people, I am not trying to deal with the sales process itself, but the
> sales support function - Pre (presentation of product line to
> potential client, getting an appointment etc ...) and post sale, ie
> when the customer is a regular customer. ie documenting the sales
> relation, regular visits, quotes etc ... issues reported with the
> products and how the company handled it etc ...
>
> So the problem at hand is at least an order of magnitude easier than
> what you imply in your example : (e.g. - what
> does the system do if 2 salescritters, who are both offline, try to
> sell the same lots of product?)
As one of the folks that work on replication for Postgres, part of where
I come from is in attempting to have solutions that attempt to be
reasonably general purpose.
It sounds as though you might have a set of business policy that lends
itself to creating a distributable system. If that's the case, then
that has a few implications:
a) It's a good thing for you; if the things that come up are readily
resolvable, then you can build a system on that basis.
b) It doesn't lend itself to being a general purpose solution, which
somewhat limits community interest.
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