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by PKop 2528 days ago
What are they hosting? Backups of the desktop version of Quickbooks?
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Uneducated guess: they host an RDS farm and give people RDCs\remoteApps to log on and use their local QB installs
AFAIK, there are legacy versions of a "networked" quickbooks that can be hosted by third parties. Not really sure though. Some are doing app streaming of desktop quickbooks
I wouldn’t call the networked versions of quickbooks legacy. (Quickbooks Desktop and it’s ancillary products) That’s like saying Excel is legacy because Office 365 will let you edit spreadsheets in the cloud. Sometimes local operations are just better, or cloud versions don’t fully match features.
Yep a more appropriate term would be "older".
I think these are multi-user versions of QB Desktop, normally restricted to a LAN, that are being hosted to allow access from the internet. The hosting entity also provides backup.