[AccessD] Virtualization

...I run a large Access 2K3 app fe/be for a client from Citrix without any 
problems ...the fe resides in each user's own directory and the be resides 
on the same disk in a shared directory ...the network traffic is actually 
much less because all that is going over it is are the screen draws ...all 
data remains on the server ...even over a dial up connection it can be 
pretty damn fast from what the user perceives ...user hardware can be touchy 
especially printers but I've not found one yet that couldn't be made to 
work.

...I'm not sure what Citrix has to do with virtualization though ...ime 
that's mainly applicable to easily creating different user environments on 
the same hardware using different software ...but I can't think of any 
reason you'd have a problem doing it with EZ.

...from a developer aspect both Citrix and TS are dream environments ime 
...the users can't screw with anything, you have almost total control, and 
90% of user hardware issues go away ...once you get past the paradigm shift 
you'll love it.

William
"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride 
it, but in the end; there it is."

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From: "Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:42 PM
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: [AccessD] Virtualization

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> I had a dealer in Belgium note that virtualization is a big buzz word now
> and wondered how E-Z-MRP would do in that environment.  I wrote back that 
> I
> didn't know what aspect of virtualization he was thinking of in regard to
> E-Z-MRP.  So he wrote back:
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> "Re per virtualization... I'm just wondering, as I read E-Z-MRP can be 
> setup
> as 'client-server', if the program is installed on a server, if there is a
> possibility to use thin clients to act as 'clients' and further, if the
> application can be installed on a Citrix server and be distributed and
> accessed as a 'published application'."
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> E-Z-MRP is a straightforward FE/BE app with an mde on the front end and an
> mdb on the back end.
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> How does this fare under Citrix?  It would seem to be OK under a thin 
> client
> setup except that it seems to me that would mean a lot more traffic over 
> the
> wire.
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> What should I tell him?
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> MTIA
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> Rocky
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> Rocky Smolin
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> Beach Access Software
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