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From: Geoff Schaller on 19 Jul 2008 20:13 Rob, Sharepoint is free. There are no CAL issues whatsoever. It is free with Server 2003/2008 and therefore all the users who have logins have access. You can also remote it and allow anonymous login. For example, our website at www.softwareobjectives.com.au is a sharepoint site. You can view it - no CALS. You have to log in to get to the company confidential stuff of course and that is simply domain based. (Ignore the slowness of this site - it is on a tiny development box on a slow connection) Vo2Ado is the only way to access SQL! Geoff "Rob van Erk" <erk.v(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:9b069947-103b-4aa2-9404-3d2a16ded899(a)i76g2000hsf.googlegroups.com: > Thanks for the feedback. I will have a look at Sharepoint. We have an > Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft and a lot of MS Servers (still > 2003) running. Throughout Europe they are all connected to the same > domain structure and seems better to focus on this one. Only wonder to > what extend Sharepoint can be considered as "free". Don't you have to > pay for specific Sharepoint CAL's or whatever? Anyhow will have a look > at this. Perhaps also interesting to follow a kind of Sharepoint > training at Microsoft or others. > > Thanks for the input. In the meantime playing around with VO and > Vo2Ado. This all to learn more about SQL, etc. Bad weather here > so...... > > Brgds, > Rob
From: Rob van Erk on 22 Jul 2008 14:39
A short, frank/honoust reply from my side... Though my interest says "Yes, go for the VO solution!", my common sense says "Don't use VO for this kind of applications, there is no other VO-knowledge in your company!". Our company would become too dependent on one person when using VO for large scale application development. So, with tears in the eyes... I must admit that using VO in our fully Microsoft based environment would not be the best decision to be made for a company in which approx. 45000 FTE's are working. For data conversions (for accounting packages, etc.) I will always use VO. This because of the simple reason that I used Clipper and Dbase in the past. In my opinion VO is the perfect programming language for data manupulation. I will also remain using VO for small applications but to use it for applications that are used by a large number of our user committee would also be against our in-house policies and standards. Instead the Microsoft development tools (Microsoft Visual Studio, etc.) will always get the preference from my Senior Management. Again, with tears in the eyes but, in my opinion, with a realistic view on the topic. Brgds, Rob |