Malcolm Greene <> wrote this on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 4:15 PM:
> Stephen,
>
>> Why would a Fortune 2000 client drop your services if you switched
>> out of VFP for data into a more mainstream product {Oracle, DB2, Sql
>> Server, Sybase, MySQL, Postgress}?
>
> Because all my corporate customers currently have very tightly
> managed, locked down desktop environments. The vast majority of my
> customer desktops are based on an official corporate desktop image.
> Adding any additional files, service packs, or changing specific
> registry settings is almost impossible. For most of my endusers, the
> effort to get their IT group to approve a non-standard (non-standard
> as compared to their corporate desktop image) change to the desktop
> is just not worth the hassle, the inevitable wait, or the expensive
> internal chargebacks they must pay in order to deviate from corporate
> standards.
>
> Also, I have yet to find an IT department (in my niche) that wants
> users "managing data" on their desktop vs. a backend server, hence
> the great reluntance to endorse MSDE/SQL Server Express type
> backends. Yes, my users are managing small amounts of data on the
> desktop via local DBF files - a practice that I've found most IT
> departments are willing to accept or at least tolerate.
>
> Most of my applications target corporate auditing departments whose
> users run laptops disconnected from the net for lengthy periods of
> time. If my users had to rely on a permentant network/internet
> connection to talk with a server backend like Oracle, DB2, SQL
> Server, MySQL, etc, they just could not function in the field.
>
> Does this answer your question?
Sort of. The description that it's auditers tool kind of sets the stage.
Are your clients actually in AUDIT department or are they just the average
person on the corp net?
If their work is on a laptop, then MSDE makes allot of sense. Considering
how may heads you had to beat to get VFP runtimes, MS-SQL Server shouldn't
have been much "harder."
Stephen Russell
S.R. & Associates
Memphis, TN 38115
901.246-0159
http://spaces.msn.com/members/srussell/
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