Re: Small database - question

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 14:33 +0100, Václav Čermák wrote:
> Hi conference :-)
>
> I've stumbled upon Glom and got some question about how to use it. We
> have a small organization (charity one) and we keep contacts to our
> sponsors where we have (beside contact info) also personal info and
> different comments about the contact. Firstly we had it in a Microsoft
> Works, recently we've converted it and use Sugar CRM. However, Sugar
> is way to big application for our needs and the contact part is not so
> user friendly as we'd wish. Upon searching the net I've discovered
> Glom which seem to be just the thing we could use.

I hesitate to recommend Glom for really serious use at the moment. Of
course, someone has to be first. But you should realise that you are
using young software that not many other people are using yet.

> My question is:
> 1) When we install it on our office server, can users with different
> OS approach data there? (We have Windows, Mac and Ubuntu users.)

We have a Windows installer. It should work well with a server running
on Linux, but I doubt that anybody has tested that.


> 2) Can those users be logged in simoultaneously and do changes there
> at the same time?

In general, there is not perfect support for multiple simultaneous users
now, just due to lack of developer time. For instance, there is no
visual feedback that another user is editing the same record already.

But otherwise it should not be a problem.

> 3) Can the database be accessed locally and also from outside (via
> internet)?

It cannot really be accessed from the internet. I suspect that there
would be serious performance problems. Ther is also no web-based UI yet.

> Sorry, if these question are too silly, but the offcial documentation
> page didn't open

Could you file a bug, please, with details.

>  and I have no knowledge of dealing with databases and related
> programming.
> I'd be very thankfull for plain, simple answers!
> Thanx!

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