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[Ray Ontko <rayo@ONTKO.COM>]

> 1) What kinds of things have others done to do remote report / interface
> development?  I'm an independant contractor and would rather work at home
> on client reports (Less travel time, less interuptions, etc...)  The issues
> I see are differing DB platforms, how to get good test data into my DB,
> performance of a home server (I don't bill enough to buy an Ultra Sparc
> 6000!), and others I'm sure.

Steve,

We've done a fair amount of remote development of SQR applications.
Here are a few thoughts:

1) get a fast connection to the internet.  Many clients will at least
allow you to telnet into their machines to do development or ftp
to upload and download files easily.  A ppp connection (available
through your internet service provider) would often allow you to test
remotely against a database server at your client.

2) if most of your work is with a particular database, (say Oracle
or Sybase), get a copy to run on an intel machine in your office.
Because your client won't have to provide a machine for you, you may
be able to justify a slightly higher rate.

3) although SQR runs against many databases, I wouldn't expect
you to be very productive writing SQR reports against Oracle
with the intention of running them against a Sybase database.

Ray
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