On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Roger Abrahamsson wrote: > Just had a great discussion with one of our salespersons about webshop > solutions. He's just found some shop running on NT/asp and is just > delirious.
Apt choice of adjective. Can he/you maintain it? (I.e. when, in six months from now, he wants to do this, that and the other with it, will he/you be able to?) > I've been propagating for MiniVend, but they just want a ready > solution to push to customers. So my question is if there exists any 'turn > key' solution with Minivend Sort of. It comes with a ready-made Art Shop demo database which works "out the box", but which probably isn't anything like what you or your salespeople want. I had very little hassle getting it to work; I then spent two weeks re-configuring it to be _just_ what I wanted; dropped an 8000-item comma-separated list in as a database, and am now a very happy Minivend user. (Sorry -- not publicly available, otherwise I'd point you to it.) I also have the satisfaction of knowing that I can re-configure it at any time I want. It *didn't* blow up any of my Perl libraries; nor has it interfered with any of my other Perl CGI scripts on the same server. (Debian 2.1; kernel 2.2.13 (sic); + whatever was the latest version of Perl at Christmastime.) > I would much rather try and keep as much as possible on Unix, as they > never seem to crash.. :) Nevertheless, NT or Linux, _thoroughly_ soak-test it before going live to a paying public, if you want to keep your customers. [And my personal opinion for what it's worth -- having administered an NT network, I wouldn't trust it to run a 24hr/7days/wk webshop unless I had a team of three guys hovering round it permanently. 2 pence and too much experience buys you bags of cynicism!] -- Martin Wheeler - StarTEXT - Glastonbury - BA6 9PH - England [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.startext.co.uk/
