Things that just work.

If you are thinking about Notes and handheld applications, particularly on PocketPC devices, look no further than mForms from CommonTime. A few years ago my company had a requirement to build a handheld application for a well known drinks company. We did it in mForms and it runs and runs and runs and runs. The development on the handheld is much like notes R3 (layout regions aaiiieee!) but with a more powerful @formula language (while loops, decent @setfield).

The hand devices started as HP Ipaqs but they are now Orange SPV M1000 phones and all the replication is done over GPRS. The data is uploaded from the PocketPC into a domino web app with MySQL back end for reporting. I even managed to do a bit of XLST to transform the result sets into the graphs.

The best bit of all is that as the underlying system is Notes the design and the data is replicated. This means that apart from a mForms upgrade the field staff have not had to return to base for ...well yonks. This is something that many other handheld software charlies cannot match. Commontime's suppoprt is pretty damn good too.

You'll like mForms, it's one of those things that works.