Re: [flexcoders] A general Flex application deployment question..

[hank williams]

Sure, I understand now.I think that the whole area of applications as a service is exploding. Companies like salesforce.com have demonstrated how powerful a model it is and everyone else is following. There are substantial cost benefits to letting a service provider provide services on user by user basis and not having to worry about backups or upgrades or anything. This is why 
salesforce.com is doing great and siebel got its butt kicked. Deploying big applications is risky and expensive. It is much better to try out something for a few hundred dollars a month and be able to cut it off if it doesnt work. Most businesses can afford big enough pipes to be guaranteed that they can get speedy access to services so performance is rarely an issue.
In short, I dont think business has a problem with remote access at all. I think most people agree it is the wave of the future for business services.RegardsHankOn 7/23/06, 
Paul Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:









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  hank williams 
  
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  Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 1:56 PM

  Subject: Re: [flexcoders] A general Flex 
  application deployment question..
  
  I dont quite understand. Arent *all* flex applications remotely served? 
  Isnt that what it means to have an application on the internet? Perhaps you 
  could explain what scenario you are thinking about where a flex app isnt 
  remote? RegardsHank
Hi Hank,
 
The scenario I was thinking about primarily is 
where applications are served on an intranet. In this case the health of the 
intranet and any server connected to it is usually/often under the jurisdiction 
of the company using the application, so any infrastructure problems are, in the 
main, in-house.
 
A web application may then be very similar to a 
desktop one, because desktop applications in a company environment are often 
reliant on a healthy network/servers in order to function (network shares, 
database connectivity, network security, etc.).
 
In this way, intranet deployed Flex applications 
have very similar deployment risks/vulnerabilities to desktop apps (but none of 
the desktop installation hassle).
 
All this contrasts with loading a Flex App from a 
remote server where you may not have control of the infrastructure between the 
desktop and remote server, neither may you have control over the remote server 
and it's local infrastructure.
 
I hope that explains my view a bit 
better.
 
Paul





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