Re: Db synch - need advice

Didier Gasser-Morlay wrote:
>> Now the sales manager wants each sales each sales person to have a netbook
>> with a copy of the /subset/ of the client database he deals with, (in total
>> around 20 tables) along with his agenda etc ... during the week, whilst
>> travelling from client sites to client sites, the sales person can write
>> reports about his visits (these are indexed in the database), amend the
>> client/prospect database (add contacts, amend contacts, add notes ....) upon
>> his return to the head office, the sales person 'plugs' his netbook to the
>> network, press the 'synch' button and pooof all by magic all changes made
>> locally are merged with the central database, taking into account any
>> changes made to the central database. Once this merge process is finished,
>> the sales person netbook is refreshed with a copy of the new database
>> fragment he deals with.

Mladen Gogala wrote:
> Your sales manager should get acquainted with something called "the Internet".
> The sales people should only log into the website providing service, instead
> of carrying the database around. Also, they shouldn't be carrying "notepads",
> "laptops" or any such contraption, they should be carrying iPads. Make sure to
> spell it right, "iPad" is not the same as "iPod". Your sales manager has a lot
> to learn.

There's no reason to restrict it to iPads.  Notepads, netbooks, Android pads,
tablets - even a smartphone could serve the purpose.  There's no reason to
shill for Apple.

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Lew
Ceci n'est pas une pipe.