![]() If I have money coming in for these services, I would be very happy to divert some of these to guys who would be willing to manage those servers and the other issues relating to maintaining uptime, quality of service, responsiveness, back-ups, security, etc. ![]() Get rid of the stress chuck a PC in there until we can make the Mac work.Īnd, getting back to what Jonathan Schwartz was talking about, I don't much care to have to feed my own server farm. Having the system work on the web means we can treat the POS terminal as a black box. And we just update things on the server.Īlso, while the new iMac looks like it'll make a great Point-Of-Sale terminal, we're having problems getting receipt printers and touch screen vendors willing to work with us to help make their gear gell on the Mac. And what do you do if the user is on a PC? Having Luca running on the web solved these problems in one fell swoop. For example, if we had only the Cocoa-based version of our accounting system (Luca) to work on, we would have had to send updated versions to each user each time the system changes. It felt fun to pull in all the technologies that we've been working on, tie them together, and see if we end up with something a whole lot greater than the sum of its parts.Īnd I've learnt a few things in the process.įor one, the web-based way is a whole lot more fun and easier to support. I was working on helping my friend set up his hostel. There is something powerful in there in that concept. If you put aside the excesses of the dot.com bust, the ASP model is indeed a great model. The ASP (application service provider) model is, in fact, a great model." What and others prove is that there are some workloads for which the reverse can be true - mapping the workload, like salesforce automation, to a singular service provider with a common infrastructure, yields savings from economies of scale that vastly outweigh any potential expense in changing workflows/workloads. Sun's business, historically, has been the opposite - we deliver infrastructure to customers who work with us to customize that infrastructure to unique workloads. what Google, eBay and are proving are the economics of using someone else's uniformly standardized infrastructure to run your business. I found this in Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog : List of Categories : Database * Technology * Commentary * Singapore * Travel *įri The ASP Model and why Java will set you freeĬategory : Technology/JavaWillSetYouFree.txt Services running on this server, a Mac Mini running Mac OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks:Īll set up using MailServe, WebMon, DNS Enabler, DNS Agent, VPN Enabler, Liya and our SQL installers, all on Mavericks.Share book reviews and ratings with Bernard, and even join a book club on Goodreads. ? Now how would you do something like that? So we'll just soldier on and see if we can find a breakthrough. But we do want to see things "just work", at least for the things within our control. Throw Windows out of the window, and you free up a lot more space to do the more meaningful things in life. Well, if they're working with Windows, it's no wonder they are always exhausted and have little time or interest in anything else. This gets me thinking about "Mac marginalisation" - the tendency of IT departments everywhere to ignore support for the Mac. (Windows 2000 works, Windows XP is broken - so they seem to have gone backwards). Even when it works, it still exhibits some ugly niggling issues. The problem is that Windows XP has a broken WebDAV client implementation and we have to go through some hoops to get this to work. I thought I had it solved and readied a version of WebMon to include support for XP :īut out of four people testing it, two are now OK but the other two still have problems acessing WebDAV from XP. ![]() WebDAV works very well when accessed from the Mac's Finder, as well as from Windows 2000. I've been trying to get Windows XP to work with the WebDAV folders created by WebMon. List of Categories : Database * Technology * Commentary * Singapore * Travel * Share book reviews and ratings with Bernard, and even join a book club on Goodreads.
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