16-User Network

[Jay Ashworth]

---- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Powers" <ryanx at indy.rr.com>

> I'm looking for an ideal configuration for a 16-user Windows network
> running filePro 5.0.09DN9.
> Suggestions would include Windows version, server hardware,
> workstations, RAM, CPU, and drives.

OpenSUSE Linux 11.4, 2GB RAM, mirrored 10K SCSI at whatever size is necessary,
and Putty 0.59 on all your workstations, which I don't care what version of
windows they run.  Their configuration is immaterial too; putty is *teeny*.

You even get multi-console capability using Tmux or screen, and you can even
map the console's Alt-F key pattern to do the switching (putty permits you to
turn Alt-F4 exit off) for, near as I can gather, *specifically* this reason.

Really: you don't win *anything* by using Windows filepro across a network,
and you lose a *lot*.  If you don't have a SQL client/server DB environment, 
you shouldn't be moving data across your LAN, only terminal screens.

The larger your files are, the more true this is.

My guess is that a 16-user Linux runtime is cheaper than 16 copies of the 
Windows runtime, too, but I haven't looked lately.

Cheers,
-- jra
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