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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Judy,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I have over 300 users (limit of 30 simultaneous users) that
use an Access 2000 application on Citrix. All users are remote and use an
internet connection. There are no problems, but response time is
noticablly slower when there are more than 25 concurrent users. Adding
memory should resolve that issue.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Is the database in each office independent of the database in
the other offices (except for the one aggregate)? If they are, then why
would you want to consolidate the processing on a central server?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Joe O'Connell</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT><FONT size=2><A
href="mailto:joconnell@indy.rr.com">joconnell@indy.rr.com</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>-----Original Message-----</B><BR><B>From:
</B>Judy Johnson <<A
href="mailto:jjwrite@earthlink.net">jjwrite@earthlink.net</A>><BR><B>To:
</B>AccessD <<A
href="mailto:accessd@databaseadvisors.com">accessd@databaseadvisors.com</A>><BR><B>Date:
</B>Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:40 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>[AccessD]
Citrix<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
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<DIV>Hi Group - I sent this same request out last February as the issue to
use Citrix came up at that time. The client decided it was not a viable
solution. </DIV>
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<DIV>New players, getting ready to roll out Office XP, they now want to look
at Citrix as a solution again. Could I have your thoughts?</DIV>
<DIV>This is our situation:</DIV>
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<LI>6 offices within the continental US.
<LI>40-50 users. Each office has their own local NT server. Users are
not evenly distributed (some offices have 2, others have a dozen). We
also have about 6 users who work from their homes, most using dial-up.
<LI>There are two areas within the organization, each has their own
application. The "applications" are currently running in
A97. I've converted a test copy to XP and they work fine - no
reprogramming was necessary. The FEs reside on the user's PC. They are
used for data entry and reporting. (The last FE update was in
October 2002 - very low maintenance FE). The data is located in an
mdb on each local server. All servers are linked through NT.
One location requires access to all files so a program was written
to create an Aggregate copy of all data for reporting purposes. The
"Aggregate download" is performed on a monthly basis for
Aggregate reporting only.
<LI>The users also commonly cut & paste from a web based reference
manual into a comments field within the data entry form.</LI></UL>
<DIV>The company is anticipating a 2 year window for roll out of XP and are
concerned about having 2 versions of the FE (A97 and XP). My recommendations
is to leave the data mdb in A97 until everyone has XP, then we'd
convert the data. I've tested data entry from XP to the A97 and it works
fine. Frankly, I don't see how the benefit of Citrix can possibly outweigh
it's cost. Does anyone "see" something I may be missing?</DIV>
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<DIV>Am I correct in understanding that a dedicated server is required? I'm
being told no fail over is required. I believe that means all of my
users will be on the same server, with their FE sitting on the server. If
the server goes down - everyone will be down. But my bigger concern is
response time! We're talking 30-40 concurrent Access users doing data entry
and major report generation. Does anyone have any idea how I can
realistically test this scenario? The IT folks are offering a test
environment next week. Thanks for your input.</DIV>
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<DIV>Judy Johnson</DIV>
<DIV><A
href="mailto:jjwrite@earthlink.net">jjwrite@earthlink.net</A></DIV></DIV>
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