Re: 9ids can be used as application server ??

Thanks Frank.

I M highly obliged by your response.
I will look into your suggestions.

Kishan Thakker

Frank van Bortel wrote:
> kishanthakker_at_gmail.com wrote:
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > I have been facing a peculiar problem. I would be highly obliged if
> > someone can give a clear picture of the said problem
> >
> > We have oracle 8.1.7 as back-end on sco unixware.
> > and developer 2000 as from-end on windows98se.
> > we have aprox. 150 nodes with 35 concurrent users having local printers
> > (dot matrix).
> >
> > almost 2 years back we were offered oracle 9i on linux and 9ids on
> > windows 2000, with the impression that NO APPLICATION SERVER will be
> > required, and 9ids installed on seperate server can be used as
> > application server for the above mentioned user base.
> >
> > We have the following queries.
> >
> > 1. Dotmatrix printer installed on local node can be used to print
> > reports in CHARACTER mode ?
> > 2. 9ids installed on windows 2000 can cater to the 35 concurrent
> > users' need ?
> > 3. Responce time will remain the same as developer 2000 or it will
> > detoriate (assuming 9ids server is having normal configuration as any
> > other node).?
> >
> > I Hope I have conveyed my queries properly.
> >
> > hope to receive reply soon.
> >
> > Thanks in Advance.
> >
> > Kishan Thakker
> >
>
> I do not understand your concerns about
> an application server.
> First you give me the impression you do not
> want an application server ("with the
> impression that NO APPLICATION SERVER will
> be required"), next you do seem to realize
> you need one ("installed on separate server
> can be used as application server").
>
> Assuming you will have a machine with a database,
> and another, with iDS (so, basically, a database
> and an application server):
>
> 1) does iDS support character based reports?
> I don't know by heart - time to go through the
> documentation.
> You will be running the Web version - 6i is
> the last client/server version.
> The browser used would handle the printing,
> and it would be local. The report runs on the
> second server.
>
> 2) Surely - if provided with enough CPU and
> memory. It's not a question of what O/S,
> it's all about CPU and memory, network
> speeds, etc. Wrong question ;)
>
> 3) It will probably be worse.
> Question is: will it be (un)bearable?
> Is three seconds not fast enough?
>
> Let me re-answer the question: it depends.
> on servers, network and client.
> How fast can the application sever respond? How
> fast will the query be sent to the database, and
> how quickly will the data be available to the
> appl. server? How fast will it generate the report,
> and send it to the client?
> How fast can the client render the page in the
> browser? (A different graphics driver, or another
> browser can make a difference here!)
>
> I would say: if you have the extra hardware,
> set it up, and test.
> --
> Regards,
> Frank van Bortel
>
> Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
Received on Wed Dec 21 2005 - 06:18:03 CST