eWinebook - I'm sorry this still sounds like a solution looking for a problem. The obvious suggestion would be to reduce the inventory of wine. If the wine director analyses the type of wine that is ordered he will PRESUMABLY find out that the vast majority of customers will order a very narrow range of wines. And the excess inventory is proably costing him a fortune. Indeed, is the job of a decent sommelier not to offer advice on the wine, anyway? The only real benefit of this application is the "novelty" factor, which is worth something, I guess.

Also, what is wrong with porting the same eWinebook app on to a Pocket PC or Palm computer? Surely, either could manipulate a database with only 10,000 records and be much cheaper? But of course, that would mean there would be no use for the tablet PC... :-)