On 2012-10-29 11:54:16 +0100, Santiago A. wrote: > Hello: > > I have an old delphi application (a small ERP) running on a customer. > People connect using Windows Remote Desktop. > > There are plans to increase the number of remote connections a lot (due > crisis, many employers will work only partial time from their homes). I > think that the remote desktop solution won't scale well. Licenses can be > expensive and RDP wastes a lot of resources Why in the hell should we > supply a full desktop when people only need to run tiny application?. > Due people who connect remotely don't need the full application, just a > small subset, I was thinking about programing a reduced version in > Lazarus as frontend of the data, and show only the GUI remotely. > > I have a couple of ideas: > > Using a remote Xwindows server (Are there good Xwindows server for win32?) > Making a web application using ExtJs > > Any hint? New ideas? Experiences? > > -- > regards > > Santi > [email protected]
Hi Santiago, did you try to run the application from a remote location?, by just publishing the database (assuming you are using a TCP database, such as Firebird, Postgresql, SQL Server, ....) port on your router, you could connect the client to the server remotely. -- Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
