On 30/03/2006, at 10:28 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i suppose it's lockin - the alternative program(s) would need to
import
appointments, financials, as well as clinical.
You're talking about two conversions there. Why convert appointment
(history) and financials if you can pick a changeover date and retain
access to the legacy systems?
If you stay put you will eventually be forced to convert to MD3. At
present, this is as significant as converting to nearly anything else
and the automated Genie conversion does a better job converting MD2
than the MD3 one.
also , need to test if the big troublesome
records do any better in the alternative,
Well this is easy to test, you can do the above using a demo CD.
as ctrl-alt-delete and looking at the
network performance monitoring chart on windoze shows that the
network bandwidth
is 25% occupied for the time the md client is stuck waiting for the
record to open,
which seems to support the idea that it's the network that is the
bottleneck
(why 25 % , anyone know ?),
This guy does: http://www.lantronix.com/learning/net-tutor-
switching.html
and that its solvable either by ugrading the
network bandwidth, or reducing the amount of data need to be
transferred
(e.g. by using the RDP protocol for thin client efficient pixel
transfer - it's just
efficient gui changes across the network, isn't it, ie that
winconnect thing;
It's just input and output, no processing, big reduction.
apparently its a RFC, so it's not windows specific , what is it ? )
RDP is a Microsoft protocol and the server only works on Windows. You
can connect to it from almost any platform though.
is there a linux alternative for thin clients , e.g. X window
system, and a windows
emulator , and using a common data directory in wine with md2
You don't need emulation to run an MD2 server because it's just a
file store. I've seen several MD2 installations on Samba servers on
Linux. Horst was running MD2 as a client using emulation with
Win4Lin, but you'll achieve better speed with a Windows TS and Linux
(or any) clients.
( how is the
atomic multi-user operation on shared files handled in md2 ? file
locking ? )
I think it's just a write lock per file while being written to. You
need to treat it like MYOB and turn off opportunistic file locking.
cheers,
Peter.
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