16. A method of satisfying said requests for sales information according to claim 7, wherein said translation is a translation expected by said one of said clients.
7. In a network comprising a plurality of source servers, each associated with sales information, a plurality of clients each making requests for said sales information, wherein each client request corresponds to one of a plurality of users and a plurality of proxies which receive said requests for sales information from said clients, a method of satisfying said requests for sales information, comprising: dividing said plurality of proxies into a plurality of sets of one or more proxies wherein each of the plurality of sets of one or more proxies performs a respectively different translation based on a preassignment; directing a first translation request to a first set of one or more proxies based on said preassignment; directing a second translation request to a second set of one or more proxies based on said preassignment; performing said first translation at said first set of one or more proxies after receiving said sales information from one of said source servers; performing said second translation at said second set of one or more proxies after receiving said sales information from one or another of said source servers; and providing said first and second translations.