>Well, we have a civil war (friendly, however) brewing in our neck of the woods.
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>One camp wants to take our VFP database app and run on Citrix (and change the data access code to work against SQL Server)
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>Other camp wants the more 'traditional' thin-client, using ASP, VFP/VB in the middle tier, and SQL Server 2000 in the back end.
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>For anyone who has been through both, what are the pros and cons of ASP vs Citrix in terms of scalability, performance, system resources, etc?
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>Specifically, we've heard different speakers talk about scalability issues with ASP. I've looked at West-Wind, though we have a requirement to use SQL Server. Are there any alternatives to ASP?
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>Also, has anyone aware of any white papers, documents, etc. comparing these two?
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>TIA,
>Kevin

I don't know of any scalability issues with ASP but it seems to work quite wonderfully from what I've seen (and developed).

I think in terms of scalability you should be ok if you do all your data access through COM components.

I may be mistaken on this but that's the approach I've seen people take.

I personally developed an app that uses both ASP w/ ADO and ASP + COM w/ ADO for data access to a SQL Server database and haven't had any issues or performance problems.

I can't recommend the Citrix approach because I don't have a lot of familiarity with the inner workings although I've been on the periphery of Citrix hell.

-JT