title: RabbitMQ - Basic newbie questions
body: <p>Our scenario: dozens of Windows laptops which are occasionally connected to the network. Need to store simple data records on each laptop, then have these reliably transferred to a service running on the network once connection is available. Considering RabbitMQ on each laptop, feeding data to a "main" RabbitMQ on the network. This is a Fortune 100, and packaging etc is a concern.</p>
  
  <p>Question 1: In general, does Rabbit make sense here? If not, any suggestions for an approach?</p>
  
  <p>Question 2: When I installed on Win I had to manually install Erlang first. Are there packaging/deployment options which are simpler/more friendly? (Their IT people can do all the normal deployment stuff including create win service, but installing Erlang on user machines might raise eyebrows...)</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for any help from those of you who've been there, done that with Rabbit.</p>