Re: Application Development with PostgreSQL

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 11:13, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Ron,
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> > Maybe it's just me, but I'm not a big fan of pumping everything
> > through port 80.  (This is where Web Services really scares me.)
>
> Beyond the script kiddie issue, what's to worry about?

If your app uses a non-standard port, then you can have more control
than if everything and the kitchen sink flows through port 80.

> > It's here alright, but "thin client" doesn't *equate* to web-based
> > interaction.
> >
> > Thank goodness for LAPP (linux, apache, postgresql, php) but it's
> > not the solution to every on-line system.
>
> You're absolutely right.   My point is merely that unless "advantages 1&2" are
> very important to your application, "LAPP" is probably the cheapest, fastest
> (to develop) and more reliable application architectures currently available.
>
> I've certainly developed applications where 1&2's importance was overwhelming
> ... for example, a financial reporting application we wrote 2 years ago in
> VB6.   The app had to fit a lot of data on a small screen, and had to print
> highly formatted reports running to hundreds of pages.  This is not something
> to which web apps are suited.

What if I need multiple scrolling regions, and the ability to be "mouse
free" (for clerks doing heads-down work)?

> And there certainly are non-web-based thin client architectures -- I support
> one of my clients on Citrix, for example.   My experience, however, has been
> that terminal-services based solutions for applications (so, not LTSP) tend
> to be high-maintainence and expensive (WTS is $150/user, last I checked).

High maintenance?  Really?

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