If you have just a few clients and are considering SpatialWare, you can reduce the cost of the SQL Server by purchasing MS SQL Server Development Edition ($50 US) and using MSDE, this will even allow you to run SpatialWare under Windows 2000 Professional instead of Server. MSDE is available free from Microsoft and is included with Office XP, and Delphi 8(I wouldn't be surprised if MSDE was included with the MS SQL Server Development Edition as well).
You don't have to purchase the SQL Server Development Edition, but it give you the tools to build and manage the database. There are some licensing requirement with MSDE that you should check. This option may become more viable since MapInfo has stopped selling MapInfo Professional for SQL Server. Cheers Ian Ian Tidy GIS Administrator Works Asset Napier City Council mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.napier.govt.nz -----Original Message----- From: Lars V. Nielsen, GisPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 February 2004 4:29 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MI-L MapInfo files on server Hi S�ren, > Why has MapInfo not developed an easy server solution??!! It depends on your definition of "easy". I'm sure MapInfo Sales Support can tell you that SpatialWare is easy - to _purchase_ ;-D No really, Pro was never built to function well in a multi-user environment. It's desktop centric, no more no less. Multi-user setups require "major league" databases as Oracle or MS/SQL. And since all real development of Pro has been on hold since 6.0, you're stuck with the more-or-less applicable work-arounds for the time being. Best regards/Med venlig hilsen Lars V. Nielsen GisPro, Denmark http://www.gispro.dk/ http://www.gispro.biz/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "S�ren Lindqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 2:57 PM Subject: SV: MI-L MapInfo files on server Hi, Thanks for the shocking answers; I thought it would be easy to set up a server application :( It looks like I have to keep the files on local machines after all and still use Uffe Kousgaard suggestion. >If you have 10 users, that update various parts of a database, then >have a field called userid and give it a value from 1-10, depending on who modifies that part of the network. When you get the updates back from user 7, delete all records where userid=7 and then append the records from user 7, where userid=7. This even allows you to give the users a larger part of the database, than just the part they are going to update.< Why has MapInfo not developed an easy server solution??!! Regards Soren -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Fr�n: Lars V. Nielsen, GisPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skickat: den 9 februari 2004 13:27 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] �mne: Re: MI-L MapInfo files on server Hi all, I'll add yet another concern to have in consideration: any standard MapInfo Pro will thrash any 3rd party setup since supporting intelligent TAB multi-editing is not natively supported by Pro (with proper locks etc.). To succeed one needs a stringent environment, in which every single client conforms to the multi-editing setup and abstains from using all the standard table opening and updating methods. Including all tools from various sources ! Unless one has few users and dilligent IT enforcers, the setup will break at some point. I think this comes under what Paul calls "Resilience". I know that Michel talks about MapX, and here its much simpler, but multi-editing is inherently more interesting to contemplate in a Pro environment. Don't know if v8 will come to provide the necessary mechanisms to implement record/table locking. Best regards/Med venlig hilsen Lars V. 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