[AccessD] Deployment

...yeah, you need the ODE for XP ...but you can pick that up on e-bay pretty
cheap now ...but you need that whether you use wise/sagekey or the ODE
packaging wizard ...iirc the ODE has the runtime distribution license, not
the Office Pro pkg.

William Hindman "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with
me." Disraeli

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software" <bchacc at san.rr.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Deployment


> William:
>
> What's the overhead?  How big is the package net of the mdb or mde itself?
>
> Did you have to buy a developer's license for AXP?
>
> Rocky
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "William Hindman" <wdhindman at bellsouth.net>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Deployment
>
>
> > ...can't speak to 2000 but the deployment package in AXP was head over
> heels
> > better than the A97 version ...I've deployed more than a hundred AXP
> > runtimes with it without a hiccup ...hth :)
> >
> > William Hindman "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees
> with
> > me." Disraeli
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software" <bchacc at san.rr.com>
> > To: <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:55 AM
> > Subject: [AccessD] Deployment
> >
> >
> > Dear List:
> >
> > I've got an app I'm developing for the consumer market and we're in beta
> > testing now.  It's in A2K so all the betas have to have Access.
> >
> > Eventually it will have to be packaged as a run-time. But at that point
it
> > will be shrink-wrapped.
> >
> > In the short term we could expand our beta testing universe with a
> run-time.
> > So I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this.
> >
> > The problem AFAIK with the run-times is their size.  Right now we can
> email
> > the mde to a beta tester and it's about 3-4MB.  If I put up a run-time
on
> my
> > web site, beta testers are not likely to know how to do an FTP program.
> >
> > I suppose I could make a password protected folder on my web site, and
get
> > my web site developer to make the run-time downloadable or installable
> from
> > the site.  I don't know how to do this.  Maybe she does.
> >
> > I've got A97 developer's edition, Wise Installer, and the Sagekey script
> for
> > A97.  But I don't think that the app can be converted back to A97.  In
any
> > event, the total A97/Wise/Sagekey package runs to about 70MB IIRC.
> >
> > I could buy A2002 or A2003 if they've got a better deployment capability
> > than they've had in the past.
> >
> > What are your recommendations, suggestions, thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Rocky Smolin
> > Beach Access Software
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