Re: Preferred Application Server

From: nunyo beesness <nunyo_at_beesness.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:01:30 GMT
Message-ID: <_vaEe.1999$Fk4.1098@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>

Paul wrote:
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> nunyo beesness <nunyo_at_beesness.com> wrote:
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> Please don't top-post. Humans read from top to bottom, and it is
> contrary to ng guidelines - plus many of the big hitters here refuse
> to respond to top-posted requests.
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Sorry- just came off another group that wants the opposite. I agree- top down is more intuitive.

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>>Requirements- not really much in the Oracle world.  Existing Paradox app 
>>is about 600Mb, 175 tables, maybe about 25-30 forms, 40-50 concurrent users.

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> 600 MB in Paradox tables?
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> <cringe - eyes popping out of head>
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> your company's users must be masochists of the first order!
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> </cringe - eyes popping out of head>.
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Not so bad since our hardware upgrade in April- gigabit lan, all P4 3.4 workstations. I've used every trick in the book to keep it fast enough to be useable in the past though.

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> If you're enterprise licensed for Oracle, then go with it. If I were
> choosing from scratch however, I'd definitely go with Firebird of
> PosgreSQL.

Looking at HTMLDB now- it may be the easiest way to go.

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> Is the original app written in Delphi?
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No Delphi, all Paradox & Pdox Runtime

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>>It will be a distributed database with 2 sites connected by a T1 wan.
>>The biggest requirement is a table of URLs pointing to about 2Tb of pdfs 
>>and jpgs stored on an apache web server.  Each site will have their own 
>>replica of the web server with relative paths.  These pages will be hit 
>>about 400-500 times a day- really light for that much data.

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> "Look to the future, young Skywalker!"
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> What about in 5/10/whatever years' time when usage will go up?
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> Paul...
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Agree- but I'm due to retire in 6 years!

Foster Glascock Received on Fri Jul 22 2005 - 13:01:30 CDT