~>Hi,
~>I am trying to restructure my company core software, Stock Control system.
~>After a period of time of survey in market, we have get the requirement of ~the software.
~>At this moment, we are trying to provide POS software for retails, ~fashion, F&B and services industry. Currently, we have F&B and retails ~edition in production. Do you think I should merge all of these into one ~version? Since most of the functions are same, but table structure may be ~vary abit.
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~I think it is easier, from the programming point of view, to have a single ~application. You can then disable individual functions, if you decide to ~sell the individual modules.
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~Hilmar.
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We have a product along a similar line and we have always kept it the one application and just parameterised the different sections out. this way all of us are working on the one software and only the one application needs to be updated. this has worked very well for us and we have about 70 people all using the same basic program but about 50 have customisations that are only theirs but are built into the code of everyone's and they just don't have the right parameter set. one great advantage o this is that if someone decides that they want a particular change that we have done already we only have to set a parameter on the table and they have the change, no recompiling or reloading the other version of the software
~M