Subject Re: Google Drive as a file sever From Pieter Pretorius <pieter@pret.co.za> Date Tue, 17 Sep 2019 08:12:14 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Ed, Thanks for the advice and encouragement. I feel the same about the 'cloud'. :-) I am a pilot myself and have never seen any data flying around or stored in the clouds ! Maybe one day it will be raining data. It seems that I have a steep learning curve ahead of me. Pieter "edward racht"  wrote in message news:Q6Jnb$IbVHA.1880@ip-AC1E04A7... Pieter, I wondered why this subject was familiar. I’ve only been around the edges of the cloud.  As far as I was concerned the cloud had airplanes, birds and sky divers flying through it, how can it store and protect data? You are on a good track. Get involved with other vendors closer to what you intend to accomplish using the cloud.  They are the ones heavy into cloud data storage, cloud data security, etc to support you the customer. There are some good business models with the top cloud storage folks. Eliminate confusion in the discussion by diagramming out the apples from the oranges. Develop Program – Local Network Deploy Program – Internet Data Entry - Internet Data Collection – Internet Data Backup – Network, Cloud Data Security – Network, Cloud Data Storage – Network, Cloud Program Update Distribution - Network, Cloud Adding third party programs is a development and deploy challenge. ed