quiet

i have been pretty quiet recently, mainly because there just aren’t enough
hours in the day. pressure is really being mounted up in the office and i
always seem to have a huge to-do list at home as well. although none if it is
particularly exciting.

one of the relatively interesting things i am looking at currently is making a
largeĀ crm application
available to users who travel on the road a lot. there are two schools of
thought, quite a lot of people are keen on pda enabling the app so
that call reports can be logged on an ipaq for example. but being a notes enthusiast i think
this sort of thing is better suited to a notes client application. it would have
the advantage of running on a laptop so there would be a proper screen, also we
could bring down a lot more associated data for lookup lists etc.

the battle comes because domino is no longer the primary data store for the crm
data so we would have to look at running a pseudo replication setup using
soap-xml (or some such flavour of the month). it would be an interesting
project to develop and pretty challenging as well but first we have to persuade
a sceptical management team that this is the way forward.

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