Hello Wayne. Thanks for the info. We are going to buy a box and do some testing with Citrix. Can you tell me how you get the users Username? Is it via SYS(0) as per Christof's solution or do you use another technique?


>We have one client running a Terminal Server with about 30-40 users - it is a nice dual processor Dell server with 4gb RAM. They have local users and a remote office all running on the terminal. This client runs everything on terminal - so Office, email, etc is all running on this box. There is a combination of dumb terminals and PCs connecting. This client uses a Cisco VPN solution - though that is just for added security. The application we wrote is vfp9/codemine connecting to sql server. The sql box is a single processor with 2gb RAM.
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>Another client has a lot of very nice hardware and runs a virtual server connected to their san. I think the virtual server is set up to have 4gb RAM as well. This is a vfp9 application connecting to sql server - the sql box is a virtual server as well connected to their san. This client only runs our app on this box - all email, etc is local on their pc. They recently moved to a new facility and updated all their hardware - so they might have 2 terminal boxes... I am not sure. I do know that there are at the peak about 100 users on this application.
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>We have another one that uses terminal server and citrix - they have numerous applications - from vfp9 to fpdos. They also run imaging software, etc. I don't know the exact setup they use for production. Probably 50 remote users - all local users are setup to run from their local pc.
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>It depends on your app design as to what your hardware needs may be... in all our deployments over the last several years, we have used sql as the database - so the requirements on the local server have come down a little. I would suggest you run some tests and see what your application uses per user. I am going to wild guess that the spec for the first client I described above will suffice... but unless I see your app, I can't really give you exact requirements. A rule of thumb I have always used is to have at least 100mb RAM per user. And to get at least 2 processors with the ability to have at least 4. Then if you have to add, you can. While vfp will not take advantage of the multiple processors, the OS will.
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