> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Ted Roche > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: If dabo did the web would it look like this? > > On 7/10/07, Peter Cushing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My take on that was that he meant it was very much more secure if it > > doesn't go outside the building! > > I think you are falling for the castle-and-moat model. The fact is > that electrons go in and out of the building at a phenomenal rate, and > through a lot of holes - telephony, TCP/IP, wireless, etc. Travelling > salesman "dial in" while on the road, CxOs operate their desktop from > their Blackberries, remote users dial in from home computers. There is > no moat. >
Ted: Maybe security was not the correct word. Security, reliability, "up time", "plan B" is more what I meant but that is more than one word. For example: Not all of my customers have internet access, but they all have network access to terminal servers and data file servers. In fact this is typical to my applications. All of my applications do payroll for hundreds of employees at tens of locations. I have one app entirely on terminal services and the others are on the desktop accessing files on the network. If a network is going to go down, it will go down during the 6 hour window for processing payroll on Monday morning. Since the network relies on phone lines, I have seen all four sites in Hawaii go down on payroll day. So I have built contingency plans into my applications that will allow processing of payroll when the network is down. When the application that is on terminal services is down, that's it. There is nothing people can do until the network is restored. I also allow for some temporary local storage in addition to network storage for the same reason. Have you ever asked IT for a major corporation to restore a file from backup? Doesn't matter if its SQL server or VFP tables, you will not get it in time to be responsive. My applications are using web services, sending email notifications and ftp, connecting to remote databases; but the desktop application is the hub for all of the activity. While this may not be considered "best practices", this is what my applications have evolved into and reliability is a key feature. Jeff Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/signed text/plain (text body -- kept) application/x-pkcs7-signature --- _______________________________________________ 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.
