[Zope-dev] the birth of ZCommerce
Scott Robertson
sroberts@codeit.com
Wed, 4 Aug 1999 18:49:11 -0700 (PDT)
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.
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