CostaRica wrote: > > Is it possible and convenient to use TurboGears in creating an > application that involves invoices, accounting, bank accounts, etc? > > Is it possible to create an application that is reasonably fast? Here > in Costa Rica I have NEVER seen a store, a supermarket or basically > anything with an invoice-accounting program using a web browser. Are > the software companies in developed countries doing this kind of > applications to their clients?
I've created such an application in the past months. And from what I can tell you it is possible and especially pays off if you created one for a multi-national/cultural company. (BTW, the UNO/UNESCO has more up-to-date databases with country information than what is implemented as excerpt in TG.) Keep in mind that there cannot be anything more worse than having no access to one's ERP if internet connection goes down! Something I've solved through DBMS replication features and means of distributed systems (-> "global state", "snapshot algorithms"). But, why should one put effords in programming something with a web-interface if there is already (mature) software, but without that kind of interface? > > Is there something like a software revolution in the sense of > switching from desktop-resident applications to web browser-based > applications? I wouldn't call that revolution, but rather evolution as it began more than a decade ago. And its going in that direction became more obvious, yes. Take web-based word processors and spreadsheets as example. (INHO, Web-browsers shouldn't be the new operating systems and they certainly will be replaced...) -- W-Mark Kubacki
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