On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Christopher Petrilli wrote:
Realistically, 99.999999999% of business run on either proprietary systems that they created, or some form of COTS product. In many cases it can be a *substantial* investment. I know at least 2 companies who have deployed ERP solutions from SAP that have total deployment costs in the $10-20M range. And these are not that unusual.
What I would recommend is to take a very "pluggable" approach. Create methods which access data (inventory, etc), and simply allow people to over-ride those as necessary to integrate. As for serious accounting data, this is a good use for XML.
I'll be out of town this week but when I get back I'll attempt to post an API spec for this kind of thing. I already have some of it done. It calls for a series of base objects, etc... One thing I definatly need to do is digest ZClasses and how they can play with the system. --------------------------------------------------- - Scott Robertson Phone: 714.972.2299 - - CodeIt Computing Fax: 714.972.2399 - - http://codeit.com - ---------------------------------------------------