On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:13 +0000, "NickC" <[email protected]> > wrote: > I devices. >> >> Anyway it did get me thinking, the reason many clients ask for Web >> Applications is obviously so they can run them remotely, from anywhere >> with >> an Internet connection. > > That and the fact that they assume they have to do it because other > people are, whether they should or not. ----------------------------------------------------------------
Stupid customers! How dare they think outside of my box! ;-> >> Well if the same could be achieved by having a >> Win32 app using a VNC console that might be more efficient than having to >> convert and transmit all output as HTML. > > And developing Win32 apps is still about a billion times less fiddly and > annoying than trying to achieve a similar result with a web technology. > -- ---------------------------------------- Only a Billion? Heck why not make it a Trillion! Then we could offer them as Business Stimulus works and get federal funding! The first few you do are a mind stretch, because your whole world is different. After you get a few under your belt you find that it is not that tough. Only problem is that the web work you do is not leveraging your existing vfp environment. So I can see the complaints that people here have with requests for web facing apps. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer First Horizon Bank Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://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.
