Re: 4D and accounting problems

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From: Mike Hennahane
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:09

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rufus@cis.umassd.edu (Rui N. Campos) writes:
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>This database invloves the usual things: inventory, Acounts Payable, 
>Accounts Receivable, Vendor maintenance...  I have never done any 4D work
>that required accounting.  My question is:  Is 4D suitable for general ledger,
>and payroll, among other accounting problems, or am I better off looking
>elsewhere?  

4d is suitable for anything, if you know what the design issues are...
i have done accounting systems before with no problems, but every
client has different needs and likes to do things in a different way.
:-( 

>One more question.  How is 4d's performance over networks, and what is a good
>server for this?

get as fast a server as you can; performance is proportional to the
server speed.  the performance of 4d server is surprisingly good; you
will probably even get adequate performance without ethernet (although
enet helps a lot).

--mike

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