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Thanks for posting Raymond. Always good hear some of the success stories of Web Connection. There are many, but unfortunately we don't hear about most of them and only find out about them by chance talking to somebody privately usually.
Aloha,
+++ Rick ---
I owned a VFP app which was being licensed to one of my clients and was paying OK.
It essentially was a work flow system that expanded to include inventory management. One day they came to me and said their client wanted to see all of their product on-line 24/7 and it couldn't be hosted at the production facility due to poor internet connectivity.
If I couldn't convert in 2 weeks, I would loose the contract!!!
I knew NOTHING about the web, but a buddy of mine knew someone who knew of Rick's WebConnect and said it might make it possible. (I didn't have much hope.)
Because WC abstracted out the entire IIS interface, I was able to simply move a large part of the existing shop floor inventory code to WC. The main work necessary was to learn about Request/Response processing and generate HTML/JS code instead of talking to forms. (I did have to build a DB "sync" app to allow it to run on a remote server, but that is another story)
Anyway, that was back in 2005 and the client was amazed. Initially we got a couple hundred hits a day, but by 2010 we were getting an avg of 15,000 per day. Currently they avg 38,000 to 42,000 and we even hit 48,000+ one day! (Still waiting on out first 50k day)
Due to the stability of the overall system and the things I have been able to do using some of the tools, last year I was able to sell my system to my client for a very nice ROI.
Rick, I just wanted you to know there are people out here that owe their success to your dedication to excellence, immense knowledge and willingness to help others.
Good luck and thanks.
West Wind Technologies
Making waves on the Web
from Maui, Hawaii
