Posted by John Todd on 11/10/06 21:32

Hi, all.

I'm planning on writing an inventory application for one of my
clients some time soon. However, I'm kind of confused which apropriate
technologies to use. He wants the application is for inventory
management to have an "employee" client on linux machines (a GUI), a
manager client with GUI on Win32, and the server is a database (MySQL)
on Linux. What do you think is the most apropariate way to architect
this, I was thinking:

- Employee Client: PHP-GTK + A PHP library (call it "Framework") to
manage controlling the MySQL db on the server

- Server: MySQL + "Framework" which also exports the PHP db
manipulation functions through webservice, SOAP, XML-RPC

- Manager Clinet (on Win32): C# .NET GUI using the Web serivces
exported by the Linux server through PHP "Framework".

What do you think are the pros and cons of this design? Would you do it
in another way?

Thanks,
John Todd

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