> this letter is for a friend of mine. he is a
> pharmaceutical distributer
> he is havingaroun 12 boys collecting the orders from
> around 200 chemists.now they are collecting the orders
> manually and feed to the boilling computer since its
> done manually its taking a lot of time. he wants to
> give them handhelds so that they can collect the
> orders in them and directly feed to the computer.can
> anyone please advice which type of pda he should go
> for and what kind of programe to run (is it possible
> to run a dos or linux programme under pdas
As i understand, the pdas will be used only for entering orders and
there will not be more than 10-15 orders per pda per day. For this kind of
load, i wud recomend that u go for any pda that will allow u the following:
1. ability to write your own apps
2. around 2-3mb of storage to store the app and any data that is required by
the app (a database wud typically be requied at the pda side to store things
like prev orders, customer ids, and most imp a list of all the products,
etc)
3. ability to sync the app with the main app..
for this kinda thing, i wud say that any palm os based pda with enough
storage wud be good enough. Though the costs for such a pda wud be in the
range of arnd 8-15k! Now next thing that u will need is the app for the pda.
For palm based pdas, u can use simple rad tools or cpp. Alternatively u can
get some ms pocket pc based pda. Those are typically the compaq iPaq type
pdas, which wud cost arnd 15-25k each. With the ms pocket pc u can use
things like vb to develop apps, and u shud be having access db support too
(i am not sure abt this). Although u hav linux pdas available nowadays, i
hav never seen/used one so i can't comment on using/programming them ;) Also
if the main billing app is written by a 3rd party, then consider any options
that he might suggest too :)
Bye,
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