Hey JP, I too deliberated between IC and Miva. A friend of mine uses Miva exclusively for his clients. In talking with him, it seems to me the Miva is somewhat limited -- for example, for him to make a page with no products, like an "about us" page, it's pretty weird. In IC, it's a cinch. I also noticed that he has no search box on his sites, but you have to click a link to the search page. Maybe this is just the way he does it, though. All of my experience with IC is for one site: www.shopalert.us. I knew a little about Perl, but nothing about databases. After much learning, I now have IC integrated with a Microsoft SQL-based POS system, so they exchange data back and forth. I don't know that Miva can do that. IMHO, Miva is for those who don't want to learn much, but just get a site up quickly. While you have to hack at it more, IC can take you much farther than Miva. There's no reason why IC (with many modifications) couldn't power Amazon.com. (Right, Mike?) > 6. I didn't see anything in the demo for importing > products. Is there a facility to do this and can it > handle both full imports (for updating everything on > the site) and incremental imports (for just adding new > products)? And is it as simple as creating a text > file, uploading and running an import program? We do complete replacements of the products table every night through a text file import. The POS system uploads its table to the web server, the web server moves it to the IC directory as "products.txt" and removes the "products.sql." Then the server restarts, which loads in the new products.txt. (I had to make them look alike.) It'd be nice to use an ODBC connection, but I'm still new to this, and this works anyways. Best wishes! Josh _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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