> > My take on that was that he meant it was very much more secure if it > > doesn't go outside the building! > >I think you are falling for the castle-and-moat model. The fact is >that electrons go in and out of the building at a phenomenal rate, and >through a lot of holes - telephony, TCP/IP, wireless, etc. Travelling >salesman "dial in" while on the road, CxOs operate their desktop from >their Blackberries, remote users dial in from home computers. There is >no moat. > > > I know you can still use web based apps just LAN based but why would you > > bother? > >Because the very next words out of the PHB's mouth after you deploy >the rich client application is "How can the salesman on the road use >this app?" or "How do we let the satellite office in Phoenix enter >data?" or "How can the London office connect?" or "How can I get this >app to work on my Palm Treo?"
Perhaps the defining consideration is, what sort of organization is it? There are literally millions of organizations in the world that can use customized database software that do not and will never have a traveling salesperson, a London office, or a need for people to walk around with crackberries glued to their fingers. These are the organizations for whom web applications provide nowhere near enough benefit to compensate for their eternally clunky, slow, and inflexible nature. This is where desktop apps are needed, it's the arena toward which VFP was targeted, and it's a huge market that now no longer has a single major player serving it. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
