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Hannes Hirzel hannes.hirzel.squeaklist at bluewin.ch
Sat Mar 1 20:57:59 UTC 2003


Chad Nantais <chad at whistler.com> wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> I had developed a system for car dealership service departments that 
> allowed for profiling of customers based on their repair activity, 
> satisfaction level, etc.  The system was developed using Zope + MySQL.  
> I want to create a sister application that is used by sales departments 
> for lead management, customer profiling, etc.  This new system _should_ 
> allow for migration of data from the service tables.  It will have to 
> allow for the ability to manage new types of customers in different 
> states.  It also has to deal with the fact that a vehicle is both a 
> deliverable (you can sell it) and a repairable (you can fix it).
> 
> I have the luxury of time and very few implementation constraints so I 
> would like to experiment with using Squeak to build this system which 
> will have to manage thousands of vehicles, customers, leads, service 
> invoices, and follow-up calls and the many relationships between them.  
> The keyword here is "profiling".  That's where catalogs and queries 
> come in.  I tried to do this with Zope, but I found unit testing 
> awkward, if not impossible.  I also tried to develop a solution using 
> the ZODB without Zope, but felt like I was just reinventing the wheel.  
> So, I'm going to see if Squeak is a better fit for this problem.
> 
> Chad


Just wondering .... Are you considering going to use 'seaside'?

http://map2.squeakfoundation.org/sm/package/b135c62f-80b5-4a2f-80d4-7be8
389ed54e

and

http://beta4.com/seaside2/

-- Hannes



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