Stephen
> Are your clients actually in AUDIT department or are they just the average person on the corp net?
Both audit department staff and average users. Note that most of my
customer's have over a dozen "audit departments" - financial auditing,
safety auditing, security auditing, IT auditing, loss control, etc. Also
many of my customers deploy my software to non-audit staff as a way for
departments to self-audit themselves between visits of an official
auditor.
> If their work is on a laptop, then MSDE makes allot of sense.
Unfortunately, the same "corporate desktop" image applies. If I were to
ask to have MSDE installed on a laptop that's going to be taken offsite
- YIKES - the perceived risk of large chunks of data floating around on
an unsecured workstation would get me thrown out before I could fully
explain my request. I've seen this happen with other vendors' products
and I have no plans to suffer the same fate.
> Considering how may heads you had to beat to get VFP runtimes, MS-SQL Server shouldn't have been much "harder."
Distributing the VFP runtimes is a piece of cake - one of the true joys
of working with VFP. I simply copy these files to my application folder
and that's it. No Windows or Windows/System updates. No registry or INI
file changes. Quick and painless installs that are not vulnerable to
side effects from the files being installed by other applications. This
is an important competitive advantage for me.
Malcolm
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