Agree 100% and that's what I advised my client and thanks for being on my side :)

>It will be good to upgrade to SQL2k, because concurrency is an issue with Access
>2000, and it will not scale up very well.
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>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Chunshen (Don) Li
>  To: CF-Talk
>  Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 7:32 PM
>  Subject: Re: ugly truth
>
>
>  Thanks.
>
>  They are Dell 1550 for WEB server (IIS 5.0) and 2550 for Access 2000 (intend
>to upgrade to SQL Server) (they have a total of 4 boxes).
>
>  And I intend to recommend installing CF5 on a box that has most RAM and Access
>db on the box that has second most RAM.
>
>  >With 5 to 10 concurrent users the box will run, but will be somewhat kludgy,
>  >especially if the SQL DB is on the same box (not recommended)
>  >
>  >Recommended minimum RAM is 1 GB
>  >
>  >If the Existing RAM is ECC RAM, the upgrade will be around $450.00, but is
>just
>  >DR RAM, the upgrade will be about half that to bring it up to 1 GB
>  >
>  >If they use Oracle DB, then the recommended RAM is 4 GB, minimum
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>  >  ----- Original Message -----
>  >  From: Chunshen (Don) Li
>  >  To: CF-Talk
>  >  Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 6:59 PM
>  >  Subject: ugly truth
>  >
>  >
>  >  One would never expect a production server running with 256 MB RAM but it's
>  >true I just found out from my client.  The thing is it's totally beyond me
>that
>  >Dell would roll out a machine with this little amount of RAM and label it as
>a
>  >SERVER and sell to customers even three or fours years ago.
>  >
>  >  Now, I can't dig up doucmentation on CF5's system requirement, well, on a
>256
>  >MB RAM box somehow CF5 runs, but I would seriously doubt that with this
>little
>  >amount of memory CF server would be able to handle SESSION locking management
>  >very well (even session vars are properly locked),  with extremely
>  >query-extensive or heavy-duty queries, and say, with 5 or 10 concurrent users
>  >hit same page/request.  What's your thought?
>  >  Certainly I'm pushing my client to throw in more RAMs on the box.
>  >
>  >  TIA.
>  >
>  >  Don Li
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