MySQL Building User Interfaces

Chapter 8. Commission Calculations Abstract and Design

In this, the second of the book’s “Real World Implementation” examples, the application relates to a much larger corporation. In this case, the client is an international corporation with salespeople scattered all over the world. Their Financial Analysis department is made up of a mix of Europeans and Americans, and most of the Europeans have come into the department as a result of the acquisition of a European competitor. Each department has its own Information Systems (IS) division whose sole purpose is to support the computing needs of the parent department. As far as “American” companies ...