Francisco Tapia
fhtapia at gmail.com
Fri May 13 15:33:11 CDT 2005
Not all companies have "excellent" 100mb networks. I've worked in a great network environment before... and in this kind of environment it's easy to forget the amount of load you place on a network. (Especially if you plan on making updates available via a Wan). I am NOT saying that updating the entire FE is "wrong" for the sake of being wrong... but I do think that as a developer you are taking your hardware for granted, especially if there is no "need" to transfer the entire FE when nothing has been updated. You unnecessarily promote hdd defragmentation, adding network traffic when there is no "explicit" need, and in many cases slowing down the startup time on your application, why would you purposefully want to do that? Now that I've ranted, a single txt file w/ the version information is a mere 52 bytes, how big are the FE's you are talking about? my current FE is in an ADE format and is a whooping 9MB, In fact the previous FE was in an MDB format was up to 7MBs. I do use Wise for sending out the compressed update; still the entire package comes out to 4MB, The update "IS" fast, the updater downloads a new copy and then runs the setup.exe to gracefully close the program, and install the new ade. On 5/13/05, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > > Hi Francisco > > But that isn't so. > We are talking about two (2) seconds on a standard 100 Mb network. It's > plain impossible to bug a server with this load. > > We have a client running a POS application. Power can be cut for such a > workstation. I can't tell what a relief it is that the sales clerk just > needs to reboot to have everything working with a fresh copy of the > application. > > /gustav > > >>> fhtapia at gmail.com 05/13 6:10 pm >>> > > ... imagine having to wait for IE/FF/Opera to download the > program everytime you wanted to browse the web!!! > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com |PC news with out the jargon! http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More...