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To: SunSpot who wrote (46682)	6/14/2000 6:42:00 PM
From: keithsha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

SunSpud, Your mainframe centric approach may fit your philosophy but how does it fulfill the users needs? What about charting, multi-diminsional analysis, simple formulas and caluculations so the user can do what if's? Tab delimited ascii, you charge for that? Also what happens when the user wants to go offline, a network segment is out or the server is down? A Office user with a SQL Server back-end could do all that I've described with offline use as well straight out of the box with no need for development services. Perhaps you promote deficient solutions as a perverse form of job security

To: SunSpot who wrote (46682)	6/14/2000 7:47:00 PM
From: mozek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Sunspot, ...integration of the database with MS Office will NOT be done using ODBC, ADO etc., but using HTTP and tabulator separated ASCII. ... Are you aware of SOAP, a simple, cross platform way of communicating with objects/data structures over XML? A lot of companies are planning to use it for simple data exchange, and it's also capable of representing cross platform schema information. IBM just released a Java implementation of SOAP to Apache as well. It might get you out of the business of defining your own formatting and creating something that will be able to speak with a larger variety of systems down the road. Mike