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willie v.
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10 years ago

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Hello Ive been asked by a company to develop a application for them that will do all their quotes. currently all the items they sell is on a excel book and they want to keep using the excel book to...
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Richard P.'s avatar
Richard P.
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10 years ago

the main reason they were looking at dropbox is they are using it currently for their files so they "like and understand" it.

Definitely sounds like a square peg round hole situation :) I guess I am lucky in that I am in a position to walk away from those sorts of clients these days!

Dropbox is for files, they are now past files and into the realm of *data* so they should be looking at something which fits that.

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