>Hello all,
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>I have a couple of multi-user apps running as exe's. The exe's are presently located on the network server, as is the data.
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>My question is, does anyone know if my apps will run faster if the exe is on the workstations. The data will always be on the server, so that won't change.
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>Our network connection is fairly fast, and a couple of the workstations are 486's or older Pentium's. So, conversely, would the exe run slower if it was located on these workstations?
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>And if it would be faster to have the exe's on the individual workstations, what is the best way to set that up, as far as ease of maintenance, etc, goes.

Makes little difference on a good LAN in performance, but local is a little better. But the optimal solution for you is usually "both." The problems, as William was getting at, are:

1) Updating local EXEs scattered all over
2) Updating the server EXE when it's being constantly used.

The solution is a launcher EXE, which checks to see if the local version is older than the server version, and if so, copies the server version to the local machine, and runs it either way. Answers all the possible problems...