Re: Preferred Application Server

nunyo beesness <nunyo_at_beesness.com> wrote:

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>Requirements- not really much in the Oracle world. Existing Paradox app
>is about 600Mb, 175 tables, maybe about 25-30 forms, 40-50 concurrent users.

600 MB in Paradox tables?

<cringe - eyes popping out of head>

your company's users must be masochists of the first order!

</cringe - eyes popping out of head>.

If you're enterprise licensed for Oracle, then go with it. If I were choosing from scratch however, I'd definitely go with Firebird of PosgreSQL.

Is the original app written in Delphi?

>It will be a distributed database with 2 sites connected by a T1 wan.
>The biggest requirement is a table of URLs pointing to about 2Tb of pdfs
>and jpgs stored on an apache web server. Each site will have their own
>replica of the web server with relative paths. These pages will be hit
>about 400-500 times a day- really light for that much data.

"Look to the future, young Skywalker!"

What about in 5/10/whatever years' time when usage will go up?

Paul...

>Foster Glascock

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