Ted, Thank you. You have just sumarized the issue.
I cannot imagine our support staff 'walking' all those people in the medical offices through all that stuff and then maintaining all the issues that will surely happen with all the unstable Windows OS crap. If it cannot be done on XP, 20xx server, Crapsta, Win7, Win8 and whatever crap M$ comes up with, automatically, then we probably can't do it. On the other hand, we only have a few, maybe 25 clients, max, that need the larger files now. Possibly we could support both immediately and then slowly bring everyone else up over the next 5-10 years? It looks like if you could ever manage to get things installed and working, then the ongoing support might not be impossible. Only the new installations and client hardware upgrades would be significant issues. Unfortunately, there are so many changes happening now in healthcare software because of HIPAA and the new 'Obamacare' laws that we have limited resources to experiment with significant new projects. I wonder how many other companies are having this same potential issue. Too bad we (healthcare software companies) are all 'loners' doing our own thing with a client base that dates back many years so it is dependable and solid, but not growing much because the market is saturated. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Roche" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [NF] Why should use Maria instead of MySQL ? What about converting from Fox DBF? On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Michael Oke, II <[email protected]> wrote: > In a word, yes. We do it at one of my client' all the time. > One is not thousands. How is it you get the database server software installed on the server, open the ports on the server to access the database, and configure the ODBC drivers on each desktop to access the server? Is that all automated in your setup script? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
