Rick Lipkin wrote:Randal
Thanks for the clarification .. we have several 'local' server hosting 'private' company's here in Columbia, SC and if I had my choice, I would feel much better about allowing them to host my data for a leasing fee .. especially if I did not have the IT staff nor the capital to purchase the servers and user licenses.
If I were to have my data hosted .. I would want to use MS Sql Server\SqlOleDb ( ado ) rather than .dbf as my back end of choice, especially in a Client\Server arrangement.
Rick Lipkin
Rick:
Thanks again. Yes, that is our customer's position also, i.e. they do not have or want the IT staff or the expense of buying the software/hardware for a server.
However, I'm not talking about just hosting data and this would not be client/server. What I'm talking about setting up and maintaining the server for the customer offsite. Either at our location or lease computers/space from another company (Rackspace or something like that?). The customer would access the server via terminal services or remote desktop connection. There are several companies that offer this kind of service.
Randal