[AccessD] Citrix

Jurgen Welz had a lot of comments on this; see Archives: Welz Citrix
http://intranet.marlow.com/AccessD/AccessDPost.asp?PostNumber=6122&StrC=welz&StrC=citrix

Judy Johnson wrote:

> 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.
>  
> 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?
> This is our situation:
>
>     * 6 offices within the continental US.
>     * 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.
>     * 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.
>     * The users also commonly cut & paste from a web based reference
>       manual into a comments field within the data entry form.
>
> 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?
>  
> 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.
>  
> Judy Johnson
> jjwrite at earthlink.net <mailto:jjwrite at earthlink.net>
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