title: Mobile/PDA + SQL Server data synchronization
body: <p>Need a little advice here.  We do some windows mobile development using the .NET Compact framework and SQL CE on the mobile along with a central SQL 2005 database at the customers offices.  Currently we synchronize the data using merge replication technology.</p>
  
  <p>Lately we've had some annoying problems with synchronization throwing errors and generally being a bit unreliable.  This is compounded by the fact that there seems to be limited information out there on replication issues.  This suggests to me that it isn't a commonly used technology.</p>
  
  <p>So, I was just wondering if replication was the way to go for synchronizing data or are there more reliable methods?  I was thinking web services maybe or something like that.  What do you guys use for this implementing this solution?</p>
  
  <p>Dave</p>