There is nothing in web services that requires you to use Passport.


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>But, there is no guarantee that free services will remain free once a user has moved their data over to Passport servers and begun utilizing the remote executables. The 'freeness' of a service relates to the service provider's bottom line, not the clients. Also, once data is on Passport, if the client changes their mind are there export 'services' to extract their data from the propriatary formats.
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>Also, I've wondered how many clients can use the same remote executable before bandwidth limitations slow their access down and make performance unacceptable. Then there are the problems assoicated with down times. Clients are at the mercy and expertise of the Passport server techies, and predicting downtimes (and revenue losses or expense costs) becomes problematic. In other words, mamagement of the companies operations have, to some extent, been moved out of their control.
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>>>Craig,
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>>>I was looking for those words 'Software as a service.' Its such a forign concept for me, its going to take some time until it finds it way into my vocabulary.
>>>Maybe by the time, the .net. is a reality, Fox will have some hooks into it, and enabled me to write applications which I can charge for monthy, to pay my pension. <grin>
>>>Bob
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>>>>That's Visual Studio .Net. .Net is more than just development tools. It revolves around software as a service and uses XML for messaging between those services.
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