What app would allow us to design an arbitrary interface to look like what we have on approach? I understand PHP to be a front end for mySQL. "Maybe" our user would work with something more modern if we can make it look like the old.
I appreciate getting to ask these questions. Michael On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > It sounds like the database itself doesn't have to be synced anywhere, > there is just a need for remote client access. That's going to be tough to > do with the policy of keeping the DB physically isolated :) So yes, that > security policy will probably have to go if the database user has the pull > to force a remote access setup for their needs. > > When you say "database user who doesn't want to learn anything new" how > do they access the db currently? Is there a UI for Approach that they use > currently, and is that what they want to access remotely? Setting up RDP > (the windows remote desktop protocol) over VPN is a solution if they must > see the Windows XP desktop to use the database. Doing a Windows XP instance > in the cloud so everyone can have easy remote access is possible - > cheapest I could find was http://www.colossuscloud.com/pricing.phtml > which appears to be at least $20/month. > > It sounds like a rock and a hard place, and unfortunately if your DB user > is absolutely set on staying with Approach, then the option set isn't very > wide. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Michael L <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> You're not rude. I know my questions probably seem like I'm a 4 yr. old >> who doesn't know much besides 911 (but since I designed a database 17 years >> ago I must know everything about IT). I often thought a CRM solution would >> be something for us. One difficulty is we have a 72 yr old (baby) database >> user who doesn't want to learn anything new and in 14 years hasn't learned >> to properly use what we have and now wants access at a new location. The >> Lotus Approach app isn't updated past WinXP. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Michael, >>> >>> I don't mean to be rude but I would think that the mailing label >>> function you describe would be available as a turnkey package. That >>> application has been solved many years and times over. Or let me spin this >>> another way - do you need to expand functionality to use a tool like a >>> Customer Resource Management (CRM) package? There are several open source >>> CRM tools (SugarCRM for instance) that might do multiple jobs for your >>> organization. >>> >>> At first blush, your request sounds like re-inventing the wheel. >>> >>> Howard >>> >>> >>> On 09/13/2015 04:04 AM, Michael L wrote: >>> >>>> The database app runs a mailing list for DVD's. And I will say that our >>>> current (soon to be former?) security strategy is to leave the single >>>> machine completely off the internet. I guess that strategy will have to >>>> be abandoned now to connect to a VPN? I understand the 'V' in VPN to >>>> mean virtually private as opposed to actually private or virustually >>>> private if you have a virus on one of the machines. 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