Re: Does Oracle + VB is a good combination

From: vincent delft <vincent_delft_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 15 Oct 2003 01:22:28 -0700
Message-ID: <5c184570.0310150022.2764994_at_posting.google.com>


Thanks Jim,

Does your OLE experience shows you that this must be reliable enough for 200 concurrent users connected via a WAN ?

Other options would be to install the VB part on a Citrix. Does this is possible with OLE?

"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_no_spam.comcast.net> wrote in message news:<ZH1jb.769048$YN5.751574_at_sccrnsc01>...

> "vincent delft" <vincent_delft_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:3f8c39ed$0$15646$ba620e4c_at_reader1.news.skynet.be...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I must set-up an application with an Oracle Database running on Unix and a
> > GUI running on Windows 2000/XP machines.
> > The size of the DB is about 5GB.
> > The application will have about 1000 users and about 200 concurrent users
> > connected via a WAN.
> >
> > My management propose the combination Oracle - ODBC - Visual Basic.
> >
> > Does this will be stable and reliable enough ?
> > Must I propose an another architectur ? (PowerBuilder ?, Java ?, ...)
> > Does web based application can be cheaper (to build and maintain) than VB
 ?
> >
> > Thanks for your feedbacks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> If you have to go with VB I would use Oracle's Ole Objects. Fast, easy to
> use bind variables, easy to code, supports all the native types.
> Jim
Received on Wed Oct 15 2003 - 10:22:28 CEST

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