Re: System Requirements

On 1 Jul 2004 07:06:00 -0700, soodvarun_at_yahoo.com (Dexter Singh) wrote:

>Hi there !
>I am buying a VB6 application with Oracle 9i as back end.
>
>we need the following things on a PC for a CLIENT: -
>1)Oracle9i Client.
>2) Crystal Reports.
>3) Windows 2000 (Oracle 9i supports only win 2000 or xp)
>4) VB IDE (Optional)
>
>All my PCs are Celerons 500 MHz and wiht 128 MB RAM.
>My vendor suggests me to upgrade all my PCs to P4's which is a very
>expensive thing for me to do.
>
>Do I really need P4's?
>
>I think that I really dont' need all that.
>Do i ?
>
>Thanks in advance for replying.
>Varun Sood.

I agree with Gordon that you should probably upgrade the memory, which is very cheap, but I also have some other questions:

Are you buying the machines through the vendor? (Does the vendor have a financial interest in your getting more expensive machines?)

Is the vendor trying to cover a poor performing app by requireing you to throw more hardware at it? (I'd guess this is a high probability)

Have you actually benchmarked your preferred configuration to see if you are satisfied with the performance? Received on Thu Jul 01 2004 - 10:49:01 CDT