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Old 30th-September-2005, 12:22 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Re: Tecchie Help Needed!

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Originally Posted by TiggsTours
Thank you to all 4 of you, maybe it would help if I described what the spreadsheet is for.

We, as a company, offer web-based training packages, which clients do from their own offices.
First thing I'm not clear on - who hosts the training package. In other words, does it sit on a webserver at your company, or does it sit on a webserver at the client's company?

Oh, and (excuse me if you know this and it's patronising), there's a common computing paradigm called client-server, where you have one machine that 'does stuff' called a server, and machines that 'ask it to do stuff' called a client. It's really confusing if you call your customers clients and we have to start trying to distinguish the client's server from the client's client.

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The most common problem is that the clients server may not be compatible with the version of Java or Flash that they are using.
Are you sure about this? The analogous situation that I would expect to be a common problem is that the customer's client machine does not have the correct version of Java and/or Flash installed.

Sorry if this all feels like hair splitting, it makes a big difference if the problems are on the client machine rather than the server machine.

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Originally Posted by DavidJames
Nah - you just say in your report "Sun say it works anywhere, but I recommend platform-specific testing". Elementary cover-your-ass technique...
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