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by menosha1

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We are implementing a telepharmacy project for 500,000 doctors each with 5000 patient, to order medications from any of 50,000 pharmacies. The customer wants to use a portal to manage the content of the site. The request from doctors or patients to pharmacies (for refills) or the reply from Pharmacies to Dr.'s and Patients are to be sent using XML files.
I need an advice for what application softwares to use in the Presentaion layer (must be Portal), Business layer and database layer also.

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by menosha1

I am thinking of using IIS web server against Oracle 8i or SQL server 2000. but don't know what portal should we use. we have tried one Portal software for another project, and it sis not do what it promised to do. Did Any one try the performance ofOracle Portals?? please advise me. Thanks

by nrgeti

We develop applications like this in Visual Foxpro from Microsoft so naturally I am biased.

But this is an ideal use for VFP as the front end as well as the back end data base. The language creates very powerful data handling screens.

There are third party frameworks that process the back end data into XML then transmits to the client PC where it is converted back to VFP for displaying on the screens. It is all very fast and efficient.

All these tools will require work to implement so I cannot give you a short answer here.

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