> > >> What is reasonable? I don't care about hardware limitations, those can > be > >> dealt with according to the situation, but if someone you have payed a > >> buttload of money brings you back a report that takes 3 to 18 hours to > run > >> (and its a daily report) is that reasonable? I personally don't think > so > >> and have said so to the powers that be and have been given the task to > >> quantitatively define "reasonable" and I'm asking for input from ya'll. > > Dorris, With all due respect, I cannot think of a situation where the answer to your question makes sense, unless you want to compare technical skills of programmers at a given time under the same circumstances. What is reasonnable entirely depends on the situation. Anyboddy can make lightening fast systems or real turkeys. It's all a question on how much it costs to develop a faster solution, and how necessary fast responses are. The bottom line is that if the users need fast response times, then your analysis should point it out so that you can include this in your system requirements. There simply is _is_ no such thing as a reasonable response time. What is reasonnable today will be ridiculous in a few months (weeks, days???). My 2 BEF, Marc