New topic: Questions to help me evaluate a potential project
<http://forums.realsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?t=32237> Page 1 of 1 [ 1 post ] Previous topic | Next topic Author Message markwalsh Post subject: Questions to help me evaluate a potential projectPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:39 pm Joined: Wed May 20, 2009 4:43 pm Posts: 75 I'm looking into rebuilding a project in RealBasic for a client that was created several years ago using a Filemaker runtime. I'm fairly new to RB and SQL (I've been using them for about 8 months or so), but I have been making great progress on a pet project at work that I have been working on to give me the opportunity to learn RB. This project rebuild came up when a client asked for instructions to install the existing application on a Centrix server. I have no knowledge of what limitations are imposed, or how the applications are accessed on the server, and our tech guy only has limited knowledge of Centrix. From what he told me, it's a VPN server; the clients connect and run their applications directly on the server. 1: I don't know if all users have their own 'user space' that the application runs in on the server, or can only one person access an application at any one time (or are both scenarios possible, depending on the setup). If anyone has any input on how a Centrix server operates, and what I would need to know to make an application work on it would be helpful. 2: If the program was written to use the RB SQL client (not the server version) as a single user, and one of their customers was to set it up on a Centrix Server, would it work properly? Would the server itself keep users from trying to access the program concurrently? If not, then what would happen if 2 different users were running the same application accessing the same single-user tables? Would that even be possible? And aside from any licensing issues, would it also cause problems reading/writing the data in the database? 3: I would like to be able to provide up a server version of this application, so that many people in each office would be able to access the same data concurrently. To do this would require RB Server, or an equivalent server application. I have sent a message to RB asking of pricing for their Unlimited server license, but I haven't heard back from them, and I am also interested in other options. I have seen PostgreSQL mentioned here, and it looks like it is a freely distributed application that I could possibly incorporate, but again, I know nothing about it. An additional part of the problem is that my company is not developing it for our clients to use, but for them to distribute to their customers. So, I will not have any idea how many customers they will be sending to, or how many of them would decide to use it on a server. So I would definitely need either an unlimited license, or one that is open source/freely distributable, as well as being easy to incorporate into my installation and setup program. There will be other issues, I'm sure, but whatever help anyone can offer me to start to understand what all the issues are that I may need to deal with would be greatly appreciated. Top Display posts from previous: All posts1 day7 days2 weeks1 month3 months6 months1 year Sort by AuthorPost timeSubject AscendingDescending Page 1 of 1 [ 1 post ] -- Over 1500 classes with 29000 functions in one REALbasic plug-in collection. The Monkeybread Software Realbasic Plugin v9.3. http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml [email protected]
