Remote Connection Software usually tries to allow the remote user to share their printer with the remote machine, so that calls to "print" on the remote machine pass data back to the local printer.

I have used this & it works ... but I am not at all sure that it would do so easily in all cases for all users ... so it would be a significant potential headache.

Honestly  my systems are using less and less paper ... the option of generating a PDF report and emailing it to a customer or client would also be available ... so you could try to build the app printer-free in some circumstances.

Of course such a solution wouldn't work for something like a retail terminal that needed to print a till receipt ...

<AdamBrett> wrote in message
news:FEE1E8E2-76C2-42AE-9CF8-A316BF9E6BA3@news.elevatesoft.com...
> One of the most exciting prospects I can see is putting your whole network
> in the cloud, so that bandwidth "up" and "down" ceases to be an issue.
>
> i.e. 1 server in the cloud linked  to a set of clients which are also
> cloud machines. Amazon makes this idea of a "cloud LAN" or "cloud VPN"
> relatively easy to set up.
>
> The user fires up any normal PC (or Mac or whatever!) with zero install.
> Runs a remote connection program, and is launched into a desktop in the
> cloud which we have customized to display our application.
>
> All connections from the cloud client to the cloud server are ultra fast
> ... I have done this already myself & it is dramatic! Noticeably faster
> than the normal connection time I have working with a _local_ file-server
> DBISAM db, let alone faster than a TCP-IP CS DBISAM set up, even on a fast
> LAN.
>
> The cloud client then just serves down the graphic representation of the
> client-desktop to the user's local computer ... so long as the user has
> adequate bandwidth for that they get good service.
>

That's the way to go IMO. PCAnywhere for all. And I would have centralized
upgrades - I can upgrade all customers in the cloud at the same time, I have
access to their databases to consult or resolve problems, etc.

Robert

"Roy Lambert" <roy.lambert@skynet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:5D92FDBB-4ECD-4C4D-92BF-0A3E6BDDA4E4@news.elevatesoft.com...
> Adam
>
>
> What about printing?
>

PC Anywhere has that issue resolved.

Or you can create PDF documents.

Robert

Hi Robert,
Windows already has Remote Desktop capabilities built in (RDP or formerly
called Terminal Services). I haven't tried PCAnywhere.  Was there any
advantage to using PCAnywhere over Windows RDP or Terminal Services ? I
think the Windows version also allows you to access both the Remote Server
and Local Printers and other resources during a remote desktop session.The
only limitation with the Windows implementation I believe the host (Remote
Desktop Server) will only allow one Remote Desktop connection on WinXP PRO,
Vista (business/ ultimate) or Win 7. To my knowledge, only the Win Server
versions (2003 or 2008)  allow multiple concurrent Remote Desktop
connections.

Do you setup several clients to a single hosts or do you keep them on
separate  host ? If clients connect to a shared host, how to you keep each
clients data private from others. Can this be configured in PCAnywhere ?

Regards
Gregory Sebastian

Hi,

since there was no activity in this thread for some time now, I was wondering about the recent developments and thoughts on the subject, primarily within Elevate, on dbisam and EDB supporting it.

It appears that AWS/EC2 platform has a distinctive competitive edge over other options solutions presently available and we would really like to be able to make use of it...

Tomaz

Tomaz,

<< since there was no activity in this thread for some time now, I was
wondering about the recent developments and thoughts on the subject,
primarily within Elevate, on dbisam and EDB supporting it.

It appears that AWS/EC2 platform has a distinctive competitive edge over
other options solutions presently available and we would really like to be
able to make use of it... >>

Adam Brett has prepared a fantastic document on using DBISAM with AWS/EC2,
and we have both confirmed that the whole setup works fine with both DBISAM
and ElevateDB (including the servers).  I've attached the document, but I
will also be making it available as a technical article on the web site.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Adam / Tim


I shall be reading those with interest.

To help anyone else along the way Adam's notes need installing in a directory

D:\Code\Morfik 3.0\Help Notes\

or you need to alter the IMG tags


Roy Lambert

Tim, Adam,

thank you both for the excellent tutorial.

Regards,
Tomaž

thanks guys ... I am now finding EC2 really exciting, though other tedious parts of my work are getting in the way & not leaving me the time I need to work with it, I hope to do a lot more with it now.

The key issue is the capability to create an "Amazon Machine Instance" (basically a saved version of a server) which is fully set up to be an EDB or DBISAM server. Then you can start up a new server with exactly that disk structure in just a few minutes. Copy on a new customer's DB and bingo, you have a WAN solution for the customer which is easy to manage on-line, scalable & pretty cheap.

It kind of allows us small guys to make an offering like the SalesForce.com "database.com" offering ... with the opportunity to be more bespoke. (have a look at SalesForce.com "database.com" by the way ... its pretty scary).

Sorry about the stupid IMG tags being wrong on the document. I would be curious to hear feedback from others using EC2.

Adam,

<< It kind of allows us small guys to make an offering like the
SalesForce.com "database.com" offering ... with the opportunity to be more
bespoke. (have a look at SalesForce.com "database.com" by the way ... its
pretty scary). >>

I remember seeing this on Hacker News a while back.  What did you find
"scary", the actual technology or the price ?

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com