Is 2x suitable for my purpose?

[richp10]

I sell a software application that, so far, has always been installed at customer sites. It is a native Windows application developed in Delphi. I am interested in offering remote hosting of the application using Terminal Services type technologies; 2x is a strong contender.

I would like to stream only the application, not entire desktops. Ideally, with a shortcut on the end users desktop or launched from web browser.

One server would need to support many customers, how easy would it be to do this securely. Our understanding is that we can use standard windows authentication to enable access to some folders etc - so we could create separate groups for each customer site.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how realistic this is, have any of you done this, what was the response of your customers etc.. Any thoughts would be helpful.

Many thanks

Richard

 

[HAL2000]

Application server might do the trick.
But you need to get your application terminal services compliant.

There are memory sharing issues and path constraints you might need to watch for.Terminal Services is a multi-session environment that provides remote computers, access to Windows based programs running on the server. Because of this, that application should know if user is interacting from the console or from some other session someone runs an instance of it and act in consequence.

Applications may be served to customers through SSL so security is not an issue.

You can use active directory (it is actually recommended you do so) access to folders can be by group,or user or both.