We've had this talk before, I think, but I need to revisit. My "biggest" client is the one who bought a multi-million$$ package about 10 years ago and said "RBase will be gone from this place". And I've been doing work for them weekly ever since (they ended up buying a corporate license) because they can't get reports out of that package (we do data dumps and uploads, they refuse to let me connect to their database).
It got even funnier when last week I got approval for a brand new RBase project from them. However, alot of people work remotely through a VPN, including me. I always do my work locally and transfer up changes. A 1-second update command can take 2 minutes over the VPN so guess how long a full program takes to run.. So far it hasn't trashed the database, but it's unusable. So I think VPNs will be an issue on this new project. Now keep in mind: this company has NO inhouse IT people at all. I have no one to call and talk to. Just a general email to "help", no clue who will answer, no clue the expertise, everything is outsourced like I am. There's no way they will purchase a separate server to put RBase to use for something like terminal server. As it is they are "hiding" all RBase-related expenses because they were supposed to get rid of it 10 years ago. So we need to keep expenses low and installation easy. So is there a way to keep the VPN login, but from there then initiate some kind of remote control to the server they're already on? And also keep in mind that I am clueless about this stuff so I won't understand overly-techie talk. But if I can get a short, pithy talking point that I can throw out there and have them put one of their IT people on it, that would be great!! Karen
