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You will need to take some issues into account when building your application.

1. The user sites are remote. You need more tools to test their site, access their site, make sure their site is correct.

2. The users want to know what is going on. "Why did I just download a new version?", "Did you fix bug xxx?", "Can I print that?" are very common questions. The history.htm file helps.

3. I use PcAnywhere to access remote sites

4. I have code that
·Updates the user site data base automatically.  
·Creates a data dictionary which is compared with a table containing the data dictionary as it should be. This allows me to find table level problems (missing fields, etc.)     

5. There is a tendency to send out an update when a bug is fixed which is at odds with the normal update cycle philosophy.