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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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