Re: Net Bandwith: X-Server vs PC Client/Server

From: Bernhard Strassl <bernhard_at_trick.ani.univie.ac.at>
Date: 10 Jan 1994 16:04:54 GMT
Message-ID: <2grub6$7ah_at_infosrv.edvz.univie.ac.at>

In article <SBCHANIN.94Jan9162215_at_raisin-nut.ai.mit.edu>, sbchanin_at_ai.mit.edu (Steve Chanin) writes:
|>
|> I am trying to choose between two architectures for a project:
|>
|> 1) "Standard Client/Server"
|>
|> PC ----------------------- LAN or WAN ---------------- Relational DB
|> (Powerbuilder) (Sybase/Oracle)
|>
|> 2) "Application Server"
|>
|> PC ---- LAN or WAN ------ UNIX application server --- LAN --- Relational DB
|> (running an X server) (running the App in Motif) (Sybase/Oracle)
|>
[...]

I would suggest the following:

3) "UNIX Solution"

  PC ---------------------- LAN or WAN ---------------- Relational DB
  (running UNIX)                                       (Sybase/Oracle)

Then you are able to have the clients running on both sides with less troubles. If you still need DOS - nearly ervery PC UNIX provides a stable DOS emulatior. Most MS-Windows stuff should run pretty good under SUN's WABI (I couldn't test this myself up to now, but I hope to get it soon).

My expierience is that client/server solutions make less problems over the time (because of changing OS, DB and GUI product releases) if both parts run under UNIX.

-bernhard

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Bernhard Strassl              University of Vienna
xmplus_at_ani.univie.ac.at       Dpt. for Applied Computer Science
                              and Information Systems
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