[AccessD] Personal question about OCX

To expand a little ... 
The application is an Enterprise edition, meaning back end is SQL Server,
and a purchase of a license for each workstation the GUI is used on.
 
There are special modules that a named responsible person was intended to
start these add ons every day and have them hog resources on their PC,
however they state in their documentation that these add on's can be run on
the server as well if there was a need to, however don't offer these add
on's as a service which I think is pretty hokey. 
 
later,
rich

-----Original Message-----
From: Lavsa, Rich [mailto:Rich_Lavsa at pghcorning.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 3:49 PM
To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Personal question about OCX


Its not a violation... they say in their documentation that if you want or
need it to, you can run it on the server.

-----Original Message-----
From: Charlotte Foust [mailto:cfoust at infostatsystems.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 2:27 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Personal question about OCX


If you bought it to run on demand on a single PC, running it as a service on
a server may very well be a violation of your EULA on the software.
 
Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: Lavsa, Rich [mailto:Rich_Lavsa at pghcorning.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 10:11 AM
To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
Subject: [AccessD] Personal question about OCX


Drew,
 
We bought software that has some automation programs that receive email and
send email among other things.  Each one is a separate "module" or "add in"
for this software package.  They were intended to run on a pc and started by
an individual as they were needed.  Our need exceeded this use, we need this
to run 24 / 7, so we started them on the server, and simply locked the
computer letting the "modules" run.  I did look in to the OCX to see if I
could convert these little exe's into services that would run on the server
without logging into the server, however I believe you need to insert code
into the applications on load events or something if I remember correctly.  
 
Do you know of any other way to let an application that should be a service,
run as a service.  Hang up is that I cannot gain access to the source code
without paying, or having them do it and charge us out the wazzoo??  All I
have is an EXE that I kick off.  
 
Just looking for some insight...
 
thanks,
Rich

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