--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

> At 10:13 PM 5/02/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >H
> >The thing that I was curious about was IF we didn't have an enterprise
> >solution or decided NOT to use it, I wonder how well FB would handle
> >that kind of installation... 33 clients in the restaurant industry
> >probably means that 15 or less would be used at a given time on

average,

> >but busy times would mean more.
>
> It would be a piece of ca-- er, gateau.
>
> /hb

Hi Lee,

Wouldn't want to contradict and/or argue with Helen, BUT if I were you
I would make sure to setup a test environment with at least 30 clients
and go crazy on it, while on average you might only have 15 stations,
when it counts you will have 33 stations working - AND at this point
the system has to fly!

The test should help you and your company to determine what kind of
server configuration you need to have and to ensure that anything you
can tune on Firebird is correctly tuned for the heavy load of 30 plus
clients.

Haven't worked on POS systems for some time, but have seen it more
then once that the vendor underestimated the load and we either had to
split things onto multiple systems (major headache at the time as this
was in a hotel and we then needed multiple interfaces to the PMS
(Property Management System) etc etc).

See you
Werner