Re: Please advise: off-site support with hummingbird

dsmith_at_gulfaero.com (Doug Smith) wrote:
>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 !!!!!
>
>

I used Hummingbird v4.0 Xpress over 14.4 modem. It worked OK w/ command tool (Solaris) or similar text window, but it was very slow with UNIX graphical interfaces (like admintool). Just my .02 worth. Received on Wed May 22 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST