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

From: Bernhard Strassl <bernhard_at_trick.ani.univie.ac.at>
Date: 18 Jan 1994 13:49:24 GMT
Message-ID: <2hgpd4$87m_at_infosrv.edvz.univie.ac.at>

In article <wdawson.758730986_at_willard.atl.ga.us>, wdawson_at_willard.atl.ga.us (Willard Dawson) writes:
|> bernhard_at_trick.ani.univie.ac.at (Bernhard Strassl) writes:
|>
|> >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 attempts to install PowerBuilder under WABI result only in crashing
|> WABI. The effect is *immediate*. So, if you're expecting to run "most
|> MS-Windows stuff" under WABI, I believe you're being extremely
|> optimistic.
|>

Sorry, I did'nt specify which kind of applications I expect to run under WABI:

Non-client/server end user programs like word processors, spreadsheets, drwaing programs etc.

These are the Windows apps which many UNIX users are missing on their system because of the extremely high pricing of aequivalent UNIX products. (i.e. compare WordPerfect for MS-Win and WordPerfect for SUN)

I do NOT expect databases and Windows GUI development stuff running under WABI - maybe it does someday, but I prefer developing new applications 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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