Re: upgrade to Windows??

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From: Menuz2 (menuz2_at_EATTHISSPAMMERSyahoo.com)
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:12:57 -0500

"Gerry Hickman" <gerry666uk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OpsY1GiDFHA.520@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> First thing you should do is find a better Vendor. But if you have to run
> this, you could look into using MSDE (if the data is private to the app).
> This is what Veritas use in their Backup Exec product. SQL server and MSDE
> are glossy on the surface but look out for those Sybase inspired DLLs!
>
> You certainly do NOT need to switch to using Exchange for mail, and this
> should be on a separate server anyway. You don't say what you're using for
> User accounts or what o/s the client boxes are running. These factors
> would make a big difference when working out a future platform strategy.

Thanks. The clients are all XP and Outlook for email. The application is a
financial/accounting application that is specific to a particular body of
regulations. There are only two or three vendors of this type of software
and this is, in my opinion, the best one. Can an MSDE based DB be a server
to other workstations? That is a requrement. If I go with SBS, I could
concieveably use my existing workgroup server that runs Linux/Cyrus/Sendmail
for this entire application. The server would function occasionally as a
workstation. This is a very low intensity application. We only have four
or five users all of them part time.

Thanks,

Nuz

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