I have developed and modified an application which has been in use now for over twenty years. The application is running across a LAN at one site, Runtime Shadowed, with probably 5-6 users all on at the same time, with two sites currently running the application each on a single computer.
The company wants to have all software at it's new facility on it's own in house servers. I have been doing some reading on this board to see if a desktop application can be set up to run this way. Speed is important and there is a lot of data entry, local printing and emailing of reports as .pdf files. We have a gigabit network and performance is very good. It was not very good with a 100 mbps network, especially on the Win XP machines.
I believe that the WEB solution is probably the way to go, but I do not have the expertise needed to redesign a desktop application into a WEB application. The desktop application has over 65 .DBF tables, 26 forms, 19 browses, 77 reports, 224 scripts/functions/toolbars. WEB based would require some form of SQL which I have almost no experience with.
I see where a number of people use terminal services. I've heard of terminal services but do not quite know what it is. I'm looking into T/S now.
In our situation, I could see where we would have possibly a total of 10 people logged in at a time. One locally, 1 each at two sites and 5-6 at the fourth site. There is to be a VPN connecting all the facilities.
One site is in Florida and the others right know are in MA. In the future, we could be adding some additional sites. This is probably a lot to ask, but is this doable and still have good performance? Or would we be better off going WEB.
The company wants to have all software at it's new facility on it's own in house servers. I have been doing some reading on this board to see if a desktop application can be set up to run this way. Speed is important and there is a lot of data entry, local printing and emailing of reports as .pdf files. We have a gigabit network and performance is very good. It was not very good with a 100 mbps network, especially on the Win XP machines.
I believe that the WEB solution is probably the way to go, but I do not have the expertise needed to redesign a desktop application into a WEB application. The desktop application has over 65 .DBF tables, 26 forms, 19 browses, 77 reports, 224 scripts/functions/toolbars. WEB based would require some form of SQL which I have almost no experience with.
I see where a number of people use terminal services. I've heard of terminal services but do not quite know what it is. I'm looking into T/S now.
In our situation, I could see where we would have possibly a total of 10 people logged in at a time. One locally, 1 each at two sites and 5-6 at the fourth site. There is to be a VPN connecting all the facilities.
One site is in Florida and the others right know are in MA. In the future, we could be adding some additional sites. This is probably a lot to ask, but is this doable and still have good performance? Or would we be better off going WEB.
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