Perfect. Thanks -- Dan Stein Digital Software Solutions 799 Evergreen Circle Telford PA 18969 Land: 215-799-0192 Mobile: 610-256-2843 Fax 413-410-9682 FMP, WiTango, EDI,SQL 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dss-db.com
> From: Eric Weidl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 08:58:55 -0500 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Need sites to demonstrate... > > Hi, > > One public site we've done is the online store for the American Library > Association at http://www.alastore.ala.org/ > > To your point 1, the search checks a multitude of criteria over 22,000+ > products. That is, the search is not a "simple" search of a single field > containing a single string. It searches multiple fields across two > different catalogs of products, weighting each field separately, changes > weights and does the search again, does a third search against a different > set of weighted fields, then combines the results and presents them to the > user. All in usually less than 1 second. > > HTH, > > Eric > > At 07:32 AM 6/6/2003, you wrote: >> I need some sights that I can quickly demonstrate to a potential customer >> that we are trying to move3 off of a FileMaker based solution to SQL >> Witango. >> >> I especially want to be able to demonstrate two things. >> >> 1. speed of finds. His site a you can imagine is slow especially if you do >> not put in many criteria. And there are just 300 items in the whole catalog. >> >> 2. Multiple sites hosted on one box. He wants to scale the solution to >> multiple schools. Being able to let him know multiple sites are on the same >> box and using the same database would demonstrate also the scalability. >> >> I would and probably will show him some of mine but two issues. >> 1. The look is not really what I would do for him most of mine the people >> did not want to pay extra for a designer and I am not that person. >> 2. The one most like the above is hosted at the school district which has 2 >> T1's but both are usually maxed from 9:30 to 3:30 so while it is a lot >> faster than the solution he has out of a data center it is slow compared to >> something hosted at a real data center. >> >> You can send links and instructions if you want back channel or to the list >> either way. >> >> I am trying to set this up sometime today so he can ruminate over the >> weekend on the experience. >> >> Dan >> -- >> Dan Stein >> Digital Software Solutions >> 799 Evergreen Circle >> Telford PA 18969 >> Land: 215-799-0192 >> Mobile: 610-256-2843 >> Fax 413-410-9682 >> FMP, WiTango, EDI,SQL 2000 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> www.dss-db.com >> >> >> ________________________________________________________________________ >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf
