The replication strategy for these companies is for Company A to implement a replica of Company B's OfficeTalk database using e-mail replication. Company B will be set up to give Company A access to its user diary data and its planner data. Company A will make no data available to Company B. This will enable the organiser to use Meeting Mode to invite people from both his local workgroup and from Company B's workgroup, taking into consideration all user's diary and holiday commitments.
Each day at, say 8:00pm, Company A will issue an e-mail replication request to Company B. Company B will collect mail at 8:30pm and will package up its changes since the last synchronisation and send the information via Internet mail. At 9:00pm Company A will dial up and collect Internet mail. It will receive Company B's changes but will issue no changes of its own since Company B has been restricted from seeing any of its data.