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One idea that will really speed things up is having your CGI program write the data to a data queue, then have a batch job running in the background to accept info and bill. Same process, but you have more control. And it will speed up your web pages. Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: Joel Fritz [mailto:JFritz@sharperimage.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 2:24 PM > To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' > Subject: RE: E-commerce Architecture > > > We process orders (from all sources) in batch as many times a > day as we need > to, so we do have an opportunity to massage the data. On > line orders come > in as ASCII flat files. The mail order business tends to > lend itself to > this approach since physically filling orders is kind of a > batch process > anyway. During December we took orders through 12/22 for > Christmas Eve > delivery, so it worked fairly well. > > I'm sure that doing it all in real time could be a real > adventure, and we're > going to be finding more about that this year when we try to > synch up our > web site more closely with production data. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Stone, Brad V (TC) [mailto:bvstone@taylorcorp.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 11:26 AM > > To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' > > Subject: RE: E-commerce Architecture > > > > > > Joel. > > > > While I agree with you while we speak of pure AS/400 > > deployment, I don't > > agree with the original question since the outsourcing will > > no doubt take > > place on a PC with an SQL DB running cold fusion. There is > > no easy way to > > integrate that. > > > > Which is why I suggest sticking with the things that you are > > familiar with, > > and learning what else the AS/400 can do for you (ie web serving). > > > > I have too many examples of projects that went bad to believe > > anything else. > > > > Brad > > > > > > > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to > MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: > david@midrange.com > +--- > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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