🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi all,

I am seeking some advice.  I am looking to set up an eleven user
database application.  I will have approximately 500Mbytes of data
that these eleven users will need to access.  Data is added on a
daily basis with the oldest data aged off.  The maximum amount of
data held will be 750Mbytes.  The database will only need to support
a minimal command set, i.e. (add/delete/edit records, limited search,
report printing, no SQL etc.)  Half of the users could be doing
searches/reports at any given time.

Is Novell on a '486 man enough to serve eleven PCs/ATs with this
much data?  How well do some of the available databases (Paradox,
DBase, Clipper) work in a Novell networked environment?  Is it
true that most applications require indexes and such to be pulled
across the network into the local workstations when querying the
database?

Be warned, of all the people I have asked so far, NO single person
has recommended that I go for a DOS/Novell based solution.  What they
do recommend is UNIX in either a terminal or distributed computing
configuration.

All ideas and suggestions welcome.  Anybody else set up this size
database with DOS/Novell - what's it like?  Email or post.  Summary
will follow.

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Imerio Ballarini       - My opinions, not CEL's -
ib4@crosfield.co.uk   "OK, who threw the elephant?"