Hi I think you have an ideal DP implementation. I've never had any networking issues with DP but some of my 'legacy' clients are now planning to keep their DP apps up and running, especially since there is no GUI equivalent! Good Luck!
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marcos Favero Florence de Barros Sent: March 30, 2007 5:53 PM To: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group Subject: [Dataperf] Networking DP Dear list colleagues, This is a request for help with networking DP. The DP application I implemented in our health center is a success. Users are enthusiastic! The center is part of the public health system, and takes (good) care of 30,000 people, mostly from poor neighbourhoods. (A comment is in order here about how people react to DP. Most of these doctors and nurses are very smart and pragmatic. Although they are initially puzzled at the sight of a character-based screen, in minutes they realize that DP is doing exactly the things they so badly want ... and it does them with a certain elegance all its own. They are surprised! And if any still has reservations, I put on my technical face and casually tell them the system will handle 5 million records and 9,999 network users without crashing. And I tell them about our mailing list. That does the trick.) Now doctors and nurses are glimpsing all the possible uses of the system, and they would like to have access to the database from 5 different rooms in the building, i.e., we need a network. I have no experience with networks, so any suggestions from you will be welcome. I'm not a computer professional; my background is in engineering. For economic and environmental reasons we are using old computers (typically early Pentiums) donated by individuals from the community. They are running on pure DOS. We are prepared to buy spare parts (network cards, etc.) as needed, but we would like to stay away from fancy hardware and software. Keeping things simple and inexpensive will help replicate the project at other health centers. Thanks, Marcos Florence -------------------------------- Marcos Favero Florence de Barros Campinas (near Sao Paulo), Brazil [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
