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> >I work at a repair center that has a has approx 100 simultaneous users on a
> > netware server.  I am pushing to have all of our current data running unix
> > software moved to Paradox 8 for windows.  I have already wrotes some PDOX 7
> > apps for about 10 users which works well.  We move in approx a thousand items
> > for repair a day to our warehouse.  Additionally to this we do 400 or 500
> > repair shop transactions, parts center transactions, customer support
> > transactions, etc. per day.   We have 150 employees.  Can Paradox 8 for
> > Windows handle this many concurant users without bogging down.  Our main data
> > base would probably be running 10 to 20k records on average with multiple
> > tables to be tied relationally in the forms and reports.  Another question is
> > if our business grows to 300 employees like we're expecting in a year or 2 can
> > PDOX 8 handle even more users successfully?  These are question aimed at me by
> > our IS manager who wants to use SQL server or Oracle. His argument is that
> > PDOX is a personal data base software that can't handle a large user load.
> > I'm wondering if any of you have had experience at this and can give me some
> > advice.

> As the number of simultaneous writers to a file-server database goes up, the
> risk of one of those computers "doing it wrong" also increases.  The number of
> users (if they are mostly reading and if the data is efficiently indexed)
> matters less.

> However...  I, too, am beginning to steer my business more and more toward
> servers, because you only have to worry about one of the computers going down,
> plus you have transaction support.  The product we're using is Borland's
> InterBase, which BTW runs on many Unix servers, as well as NT and Netware.

> In your situation, I respectfully agree with your IS manager.  I think that
> keeping the data on the Unix box, under the auspices of a server (and quite
> possibly,* simple terminals(!) off the Unix box and/or a network of
> multi-user Unix boxes) would make the most sense and be the most efficient use
> of resources.

> I mean, think about this too ...  you're gonna buy 300 computers for these 300
> people at more than $1,000 a pop?  Dumb terminals can be had for $100 or less.

>I work at a repair center that has a has approx 100 simultaneous users on a
> netware server.  I am pushing to have all of our current data running unix
> software moved to Paradox 8 for windows.  I have already wrotes some PDOX 7
> apps for about 10 users which works well.  We move in approx a thousand items
> for repair a day to our warehouse.  Additionally to this we do 400 or 500
> repair shop transactions, parts center transactions, customer support
> transactions, etc. per day.   We have 150 employees.  Can Paradox 8 for
> Windows handle this many concurant users without bogging down.  Our main data
> base would probably be running 10 to 20k records on average with multiple
> tables to be tied relationally in the forms and reports.  Another question is
> if our business grows to 300 employees like we're expecting in a year or 2 can
> PDOX 8 handle even more users successfully?  These are question aimed at me by
> our IS manager who wants to use SQL server or Oracle. His argument is that
> PDOX is a personal data base software that can't handle a large user load.
> I'm wondering if any of you have had experience at this and can give me some
> advice.