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Tom ONeil wrote:
Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License
From: Shawn Hogan
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Time: 3:50:36 pm
> This still doesn't address the issue of automated events. It requires
> a generic user logged in from a separate machine in order for it to work.
Correct... If you are running Mac OS X, you can run an infinite number of
clients concurrently on the same machine (Windows, you cannot)... so if you
really wanted to, a single Mac OS X machine can run Server, Unlimited (web
server), automated tasks and a 2nd client for an employee to work. If
that's not an option, you must run it on a different machine (or some people
log a normal employee workstation into automated tasks when they leave for
the evening, and use it normally during the day).
> This is totally independent of the filemaker install required to log
> in and do work as a person.
Correct. Automated tasks requires you to log in as your automated task
"employee".
> And if I told anyone me their entire automated billing system was
> relying on a DSL line to stay up I would wonder ... a lot of things.
>
> Here's a snippet of a conversation from last month...
>
> "We didn't suspend the non-paying users or get the invoices out because
> the office line went down."
>
> "We have 20 racks of equipment in the colo, 3 bandwidth providers on 3
> networks, access to 9 carriers, 2 dedicated machines running $3K in
> licenses with over 500 man-hours in configuration and it doesn't work
> because of a cable modem? And in order to make it work there we need
> another filemaker license running on a Windows box?"
>
> "Well, yes."
Well, where you want to put your billing system is of course up to you, but
for me personally, I wouldn't feel comfortable putting my customer data on a
remote co-located server somewhere with no firewall protection.
- Shawn
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Shawn D. Hogan
President, Digital Point Solutions
http://www.digitalpoint.com
(858) 452-3696
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