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And noone besides Microsoft ever said Windows was a good multi-user server environment. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan M. Andelin" <nandelin@relational-data.com> To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 3:13 PM Subject: Re: code optimization was: Trivia: Processor MHz > This says more about the design of Peachtree than the capacity of Intel and > Windows. My guess is that the multi-user version of Peachtree is largely > based on the single user version. > > Lots of single user applications had a hard time making the transition to a > network. One common problem was the database these applications used. The > I/O routines required that the entire data and index files be downloaded to > the workstation for processing. It translated to huge traffic on the > network, and lots of work on the file server. > > ODBC was a great improvement, in comparison. Instead of downloading the > files to the workstation, the workstation sends a message to the server to > select or update small sets of data. The scalability goes up dramatically. > > I have reasons for developing and promoting OS/400 based solutions. But > performance is not one of them. Today's Wintel applications can be designed > to provide exceptional performance and scalability. Wintel offers much > better price/performance than OS/400. The TPC benchmarks are a good > example. > > > Nathan M. Andelin > www.relational-data.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > >
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