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I mainly work in a rural area. We have some clients who access the internet through private fixed wireless backhaul mounted to grain silos, satellite such as hu
by jabroni_salad 1y ago
I mainly work in a rural area. We have some clients who access the internet through private fixed wireless backhaul mounted to grain silos, satellite such as hughesnet, and DSL. Modern web design on connections like that means that these guys can be unable to download websites the normal way but they can stream a desktop over VDI and browse the net that way pretty reliably.
One of our biggest sticking points when new forms of multifactor came around is that it can sometimes take longer than a minute to deliver a push notification or text message even in areas that are solid red on Verizon's coverage map.
> This is likely worse for B2C software than B2B.
These are regional retail banks that all use the same LOB software. Despite the product being sold mainly to banks, which famously have branches, the developer never realized that there could be more than a millisecond between a client and a server. The reason they have VDI is so their desktop environment is in the same datacenter as their app server. It's a fucking CRUD app and the server has to deal with maybe a couple hundred transactions per hour.
I think this is pretty typical for B2B. You don't buy software because it is good. You buy software because the managers holding the purse strings like the pretty reports it makes and they are willing to put up with A LOT of bullshyt to keep getting them.