[rt-users] RT to go? Dependency graphs?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

> > I *realise* this, and I want to make that clear. Also, I am not 
> > experienced with real databases. So I have to ask: way too 
> much work 
> > to *whom*? To me to make it work? To the master db keeping update 
> > logs? To the client (my laptop) trying to stay in sync?
> 
> I don't know.

Too much design work, and too much maintenance required:  batching and
synchronizing operations for a DBMS not designed for offline
transactions is painful, cranky, tricky, hard to get right, and tend to
go out of sync such that someone needs to go in and edit and apply
offline transactions manually.  It's been done, many times, and it's
always painful.

> If you get it to work, then each person could just hit their 
> local RT2 instance all the time, with updates being taken 
> care of by the back-end.
> 
> I think that this is what ACT! does.

Yup; products like ACT! and Commence, and to some extent Lotus Notes,
are designed for this kind of use.  But there's a tradeoff:  you have to
live with other restrictions to get offline operations to work
relatively painlessly.

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