Tony,
Hi. You know what my reply would be - write a web application. You kill 2
birds with one stone - get a thin client, *PLUS* a web based app! Get on
the Web Hub list and find out what the rest of us has been doing.
Forget the MTS, MIDAS, etc. app servers - too complex, too expensive.
For the short term, you can use something like WinFrame / MetaFrame /
Terminal Server. WinFrame is expensive and needs a good NT admin to
install, but it gets you there quickly. I have run Word over a 14.4 dial-up
connection to WinFrame and it runs moderately well - just a noticeable lag
in response. This is *REAL* thin client technology, like it will run on a
286 with a DOS client!
Regards,
Dennis.
> Thanks for the replies.
>
> Bypassing the BDE is not an objective in itself. By "Thin" I
> am referring
> to designing applications in such a way as to minimise the
> network traffic,
> the objective being to make the app run as fast as poss over
> a narrow pipe.
> (56K Modem) Take a look at a telnet session into an AS400 as
> an example of
> "Thin" within this definition. I am not a three tier expert,
> but I find it
> hard to beleive that a three tiered object brokering approach
> can be an
> efficient model for slow networks, although there are other
> advantages in
> usnig DCom Corba etc.. It seems to me that using optimised data access
> components like FIB and the Oracle equivilent (I never can
> remember the
> correct order of the Acronym for the oracle components) would
> offer the
> thinest approach possible..
>
> So, does DAO fall within the scope of my goal? or does it drag objects
> accross the network also.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nic Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thursday, 2 September 1999 5:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: Thin Database Components.
>
>
> > So if something is OLE DB capable then it is apparently a
> short step from
> there
> > to ADO which of course means the BDE is bypassed.
> >
>
> OLE DB = driver for ADO.
>
> ADO-MD = multi dimensional ADO, ie OLAP, which is rather cool...
>
> N
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