Re: What's the network load of Smart Client?

  "Brian Butler" <Brian_Butler_at_nowhere.com> writes:
> You might want to check out PC Weeks's Analyst's Choice - Benchmark Factory
> (http://www.csrad.com). Benchmark Factory 97 can effortlessly simulate
> thousands of users to determine system capacity and pinpoint system
> bottlenecks within your distributed computing environment (database, file,
> Internet, and mail servers).
>

  You seem to have misunderstood my question. Or perhaps I didn't give enough detail.
  "Benchmark Factory" is a $5,000 (or $10,000 with the recommended native driver stuff) product.
  This is a single AS/400 which is being replaced be an Oracle with Smart Client situation. For $10,000 worth of software and probably the same amount of people time (at least) to do some fancy modelling work, we could just apply the same amount of money and make the network infrastructure that much faster.   To put it in more detail: We're looking at 10 megabit ethernet PC clients and the main Oracle server on a 100 megabit switch port. The network can currently handle AS/400 terminal emulation traffic just fine. What I need to know is how much load Smart Client typically puts on a network segment.

  By the way - do you have any financial relationship with the Benchmark Factory folks ?

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