I am purchasing Hummingbird's version 5 PC X server software with
Xpress async.
I am also purchasing a Toshiba 720CDT notebook with 1024x768 screen with
32 meg ram, 1.2 gig hard drive, cd, and 28.8 built-in modem. It will run
Windows 95 until there is a more notebook friendly version of NT.
For the office I am purchasing a docking station with a MATROX Millennum
PCI graphics board with 4 meg ram (to help accelerate X window performance),
ethernet card, tape backup, and a NEC XP21 21" monitor.
I will be using the Toshiba for on-site and off-site support of our Oracle
database servers which are HP and IBM unix boxes.
We are going to run monitor/tuning software such as PLATINUM, COMPUWARE, and
BMC provide ( I haven't selected the vendor yet ) plus Oracle's enterprise
manager and any other support software.
For off-site support I will connect to an HP712/80 workstation that will havea
a 28.8 Hayes Optima modem attached. This machine will run
Hummingbird'sXpress/Host unix software which is supposed to make X faster
over phone lines because it compresses what is sent and is supposed to draw
only screen changes, not refresh the entire screen each time.
Does anybody have any experience running this type of setup ?
At the office or for off-site ? Using Hummingbird ?
We are converting our entire company from mainframe to client/server
purchased applications that are based on Oracle Databases running on Unix.
Any thoughts about on-site and off-site setups would be appreciated.
THANKS !!!!!
Received on Wed May 22 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST
