Re: Announcement: Multivalue on a PDA

Hi Glen
You are assuming that there is easy access to the main database and that the
programmer has knowledge of PDA languages.
I can think of plenty of uses within my software for full functionality
within the PDA coupled with occasional updates to a master system. The
beauty of the Ladybridge solution is not only common data but common
development.
The connectivity available even in places like Sydney is highly variable.
Then again I could take you on one of my customers delivery rounds that
covers 5 states on mostly dirt roads where they have probably never heard of
Mobile telephones and if a settlement has TV it is from a communal satellite
dish run from a diesel generator. Of course I still have to persuade
customers of the value of the offering. That old bugbear - Marketing.
Peter McMurray
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Glen

While I have no objection to OpenQM on a PDA, I've been getting data
from D3 into a PDA using web services and mv.Net. Works fine and no need
for a DB on the PDA at all.

Sholom

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To some extent, a composite reply...

The PDA version of QM is a single user version of the full product.
Therefore it includes QMNet for easy synchronisation with a server
system but the processing is handled on the PDA itself. Release 2.5-0
also introduces the Virtual File System which effectively enables file
system access to be trapped by a user written handler that can then
action the request in any appropriate way. This could easily include a
socket connection to a server process on a "alien" database. We have
demonstrated with for access to UniVerse and we are aware of a D3
server program under development.

The PDA product has caused a lot of interest here at the Spectrum
show. We already have a dealer busy migrating two applications to the
PDA and from what we here at Spectrum, more will follow soon.


Martin Phillips, Ladybridge Systems.


Martin,

Congrats on the interest and excitement. I think the design shift from
client/server to server/server for mobile development may be a niche
that no
other platform will be able to quickly duplicate. We have some major
technology projects brewing here(that seems to always be the case..
heh),
but I still haven't found an insert point for QM on a PDA. Screen real
estate on our existing RF terminals causes many headaches and I'm still
pondering the possibilities of scanner-attached PDAs running QM with a
proprietary hook into D3. Of course, if a D3 VFS API is already in the
works
then development consideration will be higher and I could heavily
participate in co-development of a D3 VFS for OpenQM. Of course, that's
all
based on project priority and an idea about live-data PDAs in the
warehouse
hasn't even been discussed here yet.

Glen




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