Is 4000 users too high a number for filePro

[Scott Walker]

Mark said:

I still think 4000 users on a single system concurrently is a Really Bad
Idea though.  (I just got a chuckle thinking about the probable size of
wtmp alone.)



Mark,

I've heard that IBM offers Linux on some of their Main Frame computers.
The mainframe is really the model that fp is built for....a big powerful
piece of iron at the heart of things, doing all the storage and
processing, with a bunch of dumb terminals attached (or a bunch of pc's
running terminal emulation software, pretty much acting like dumb
terminals).  Remember fp is NOT client server.

Since IBM offers Linux on for its mainframes, I would look into it.  For
sure mainframes have been handling more than 4000 users for many decades
now.

Just a thought.


Regards,

Scott

Scott Walker
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