Steve Erbach
erbachs at gmail.com
Wed May 16 14:59:55 CDT 2007
Bryan, Very good questions! This is a rather unique application. The owner of it developed it in Paradox for Windows when he had his own hazmat consulting company. He was hired by a local company to run its environmental/legal department. He allowed the company to use his software for its required environmental reporting (EPA and Wisconsin Dept. of National Racehorses). I upgraded the Paradox app and then recommended switching to Access. He worked out arrangements with a number of suppliers and sister companies to install the app. I support and install and upgrade all of them. IT'S A PAIN! But he's the one that figures out if somebody needs to pay anything or not. He seems to think that the all-in-one location of the data and the code will be an excellent idea. I can hardly disagree. As far as transmission over the Internet, as I said, the data is quite innocuous, though we could set up an SSL certificate, I suppose, couldn't we? Thanks for your input. I really appreciate it. Steve Erbach Neenah, WI http://TheTownCrank.blogspot.com On 5/16/07, Bryan Carbonnell <carbonnb at gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/16/07, Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Of course, if the server goes down then everybody goes down. But the > > positives, I think, would be ease of upgrading, keeping everybody at > > the same revision level simultaneously, and low cost. > > > > Do you see any flies in the ointment here? I think it's very feasible, > > but I'd welcome any cautioning voices. > > Does everyone automatically get updates or do they have to pay for > them? What if someone doesn't want to or just doesn't pay for an > upgrade? > > What if they don't want the data to travel on the 'net, but what it > installed on their Intranet? > > Those 2 spring to mind quickly. > > -- > Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com