| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Firebird network installation questions |
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| Author | Lester Caine |
| Post date | 2011-05-29T13:51:40Z |
Smith, Richard G. wrote:
users, so your teacher machine will have no problem running a Firebird server.
But if your IT people are THAT concerned, a separate machine running the
database need not be expensive, and as has been said - only needs XP or even
W2k. Many of my earlier 'servers' are still running Firebird AND Apache on W2k!
I am sure that they will probably have a gash machine anyway that could be
dropped in - if it keeps them happy ;) But there is NO need for any server
versions of windows to run this - in fact an older box running Linux JUST to
provide the server would probably be perfect! If it does not scare the IT people
witless :) This probably has more to do with politics than anything technical -
I've been told many times that a server needs a server version of windows - and
I've got Linux boxes working there instead now! The IT department would not pay
for windows server licenses :)
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> Sorry for not giving enough info. The teacher machine is a 2 year old Dell optiplex 780 with about a 60 Gb HD and 2 Gb RAM. I do not know what processor. Some of the student machines are identical and some are Dell Optiplex 740s that are about 4 or 5 years old. I presume the HD and RAM specifications in the oder machines is somewhat less than the 780s. The software is Musition and Auralia. These are two music theory packages that share the same database and operate as a unit. Musition is for Music Theory and Auralia is for ear training.Richard ... I'm still running Firebird on 10 year old machines with multiple
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> I could run the software as a standalone on each machine and just lose the centralization of the teacher functions but the IT folks don't want to do that. In fact they really want everything to be web based but that's not possible in this case.
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> Thanks to everyone. This is very helpful
users, so your teacher machine will have no problem running a Firebird server.
But if your IT people are THAT concerned, a separate machine running the
database need not be expensive, and as has been said - only needs XP or even
W2k. Many of my earlier 'servers' are still running Firebird AND Apache on W2k!
I am sure that they will probably have a gash machine anyway that could be
dropped in - if it keeps them happy ;) But there is NO need for any server
versions of windows to run this - in fact an older box running Linux JUST to
provide the server would probably be perfect! If it does not scare the IT people
witless :) This probably has more to do with politics than anything technical -
I've been told many times that a server needs a server version of windows - and
I've got Linux boxes working there instead now! The IT department would not pay
for windows server licenses :)
--
Lester Caine - G8HFL
-----------------------------
Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact
L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk
EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/
Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk//
Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php