[ic] dist/mvmall?

Stefan Hornburg racke@linuxia.de
30 Sep 2000 17:18:24 +0200


Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com> writes:


[...]

> 
> The problem with using separate product files is that the mall is not scalable
> to thousands of stores, or not even to a busy hundred-store mall. The overhead
> gets to be too much.

Yes, this is right. For malls where the products have no intersection 
between the stores, a combined products database can be build.
A field can then be added to the products database
with the store identifier. 


[...]

Ciao
        Racke

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