Is 4000 users too high a number for filePro

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You'll never BELIEVE what Scott Walker said here...:
> 
> Mark,
> 
> I've heard that IBM offers Linux on some of their Main Frame computers.
> The mainframe is really the model that fp is built for....a big powerful
> piece of iron at the heart of things, doing all the storage and
> processing, with a bunch of dumb terminals attached (or a bunch of pc's
> running terminal emulation software, pretty much acting like dumb
> terminals).  Remember fp is NOT client server.

I couldn't forget that unless paid hefty sums.  :)

I was under the impression (from multiple sources) that fP wasn't built for
a mainframe, it was built for Tandy Model 'x' systems and was ported
upwards.  Hardly a mainframe.

Now what will it run -best- on at that scale?  The beefiest system you can
put under it, which would be a mainframe.  I don't disagree.  But I didn't
think it was designed to run in that environment--it just happens to be the
environment best suited to it, by its nature.

> Since IBM offers Linux on for its mainframes, I would look into it.  For
> sure mainframes have been handling more than 4000 users for many decades
> now.

Yeah, but usually (at least for the majority of that time) in CMS/MVS
batch mode contexts, which isn't actually a persistant interactive state,
but more transactional.  I have a suspicion the resources are used quite
differently in that context, and -are- closer to client/server than not.

> Just a thought.

Hey, a Z/Series would probably be the best bet.  But it won't come cheaply.
Overall, I agree that this is the most likely solution given the number
cited.  It'd be easier to manage than a cluster of smaller systems.

mark->
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