Replication: Alternatives?

Good day,

I am ?just? starting to familiarize myself with ?Replication?, and wish to
validate some concerns.

A client wishes to have a ?Main? database on a LAN that will be updated by 4
different users, each with a laptop, and each with a copy of the database (or
at least the relevant fields). The database has yet to be designed, however,
I anticipate the number of tables (and relationships) to be anywhere between
6-10.

The hitch however, is that for security reasons, the laptops cannot be
connected to the LAN.

Based on a post on http://www.trigeminal.com/usenet/usenet009.asp?1033 which
states:
?PURPOSE OF REPLICATION: To have two or more copies of a Jet database that
are always considered one synchronization away from being identical. Multiple
people can make changes in multiple databases but in the end everyone will
reach "convergence" and will be the same. The support is for connected and
occasionally connected users... but not FOR disconnected users. Microsoft Jet
replication does not support the scenario where you do not have a true direct,
indirect, or internet connection. Period.? I get the impression that
replication is not really an option in this case.

If this is the case, what other alternatives do I have?

Thank you for your time

Denis Bisson

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