Hussain,
As someone who has to support third party, purchased applications it is my
firm belief that you want to make this as transparent as possible. Why, because no
data system purchased today will operate in a vacuum. They have to be integrated into
the remainder of the applications that the purchaser has. May I take a case in point?
We've recently acquired a copy of SmartTime, a labor tracking application.
Well this application needs data from both our HR system and ERP system as well as
feeding data back into ERP. Now the vendor is not going to create those interfaces,
but they did provide help in identifying the tables in their application that that we
need to interface to. Without being able to see the database definitions we would not
have been able to do that & consequently would have gone elsewhere.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
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Hi all,
When you develop a software and you intend to sell it, are there any ways of saving
your database structure. Because obviously we don't give the fmb's, we only give the
executable. But to run the software we need to have the database and there are ways by
which the database structure can be seen, imp/exp is an example for one. I know by
getting the database structure it would be very difficult to interpret the system, but
structure is the core of the whole thing. So I wanted to ask what are the steps that
are followed when you are packaging your software to sell and what are the security
measures to protect your application, forms, database structures, etc.
Plus any good method/utility to encrypt the contents of a batch file but at the same
time allowing it to be executed.
Thanks and regards,
Hussain
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