No, you are not alone. Any company that vends software to run on a server, and which can't figure out how to make it run as a service, should immediately go bankrupt, and their software devs and management should be publicly flogged.
Kurt On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 13:04, Mayo, Bill <bem...@pittcountync.gov> wrote: > I am terribly frustrated with an application vendor who is on-site to > add a new module to on of our critical software packages, and I want to > confirm it is not just me being difficult. This system already has the > requirement that a workstation be logged on with 3 different programs > running in the foreground to shuffle data around between modules. To be > clear, an account has to be logged into this machine at all times for > this system to work properly. They are here now, installing a new > server for a new module, and they now have to have it doing the same > thing on the server (logged on account, foreground applications > running). > > This is not a minor system (either in size or cost) and the parent > company is not tiny (rhymes with "bun hard"). When I say "services" > they look at me like I am from Mars. The problems with needing an > account logged onto a server at all times seem obvious to me. (The > workstation was bad enough.) Am I alone? > > Bill Mayo > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
