>>I would definitely be interested in hearing and sharing approaches with you and others on how you'll resolve this. I have the exact same situation where I have to deal with offices in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and soon Pittsburgh with generally the same types of data issues to resolve as you have. Our company is currently looking at Citrix WinFrame as a possible solution (the topic of a few past threads) but the more I look at it, the less convinced I am that this will work satifactorily. Any thoughts greatly appreciated. >> >> >>> >>>Technical question for you and Mr. Petersen: >>> >>>Access and SQL Server provide utilities for database replication and synchronisation across a LAN/WAN. Do you know if Tahoe will provide this? Do you know of a utility that extends the DBC to do this? >>> >>>We have two offices, one in FL and the other in CA. I would like to run Fox on the local workstations with the data on the Novell 3.12 servers on both coasts. However, management needs an overall enterprise reporting facility that combines data for both coasts. Also, data replication and sychronisation would prove useful for business resumption purposes... >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Jack Mendenhall >>>RMI > >We do use WinFrame 1.7 as a solution to provide remote access for the California office. However, over our 128K frame relay connection, we do not achieve screen refreshes acceptable to the users. Also, WinFrame's UI is still NT 3.51, which causes development issues for us... > >NT 5.0 will have "Hydra", which is the implementation of WinFrame's technology with the NT 5.0 OS as opposed to 3.51. At least in this case, you'd have a Win95 UI... > >Jack
My biggest concern with using WinFrame is with that many remote offices I can see a minimum of 5-10 users trying to access applications at the same time which will, from what I can tell at this time, really bottleneck throughput causing unacceptibly slow apps. Another issue is that, as well as new VFP apps, I am also supporting existing FoxPro 2.5 for DOS apps which produces a number of issues itself.
The screen refresh rate problem you are encountering can be blamed on VFP as much as the connection. VFP treats the entire screen as a bitmap, so if something changes on the screen, the entire bitmap is refreshed and sent down the pipe. I'm hoping this has been changed in Tahoe.
Colin Magee Team Leader, Systems Development Metroland Media Group Ltd. Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
