Re: Does Oracle + VB is a good combination

It is as reliable as anything else over a WAN. (certainly better than odbc) You can put it on Citrix and it works just fine there. I have that very set up on a Citrix farm.
Jim
"vincent delft" <vincent_delft_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news: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 - 14:47:34 CEST