Converting Django to Desktop App? (Multiple Instances)

Hi,

This is a bit of a strange scenario.

We have a simple Django application used to maintain a database of
newspaper/journal articles. We're extensively using the django-admin
as part of this app.

Currently, we're having issues getting a production environment with
Python provisioned (corporate environment, locked technology roadmap
etc.), however, we will have access to a Oracle database instance.

One possibility raised was that for each of the clients (fairly small,
under 5), we install a local instance of Django and Apache, which they
access with their browser, and each of these instances communicates
with a single Oracle DB instance.

I know on the Rails side, there was a product by Joyent called
Slingshot (http://joyeur.com/2007/03/22/joyent-slingshot/), which
allegedly did something similar (packaged up a RoR app into a desktop
application).

Are there any particular issues we need to be aware of if we decided
to go down this path?

In particular, I wasn't sure how multiple instances of Django would
handle concurrency if they were communicating with a single database.
Any advice there?

Any other possible drawbacks/roadblocks?

Cheers,
Victor

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