From: kennedy-downwithspammersfamily@attbi.net   
      
   It is as reliable as anything else over a WAN.  (certainly better than odbc)   
   You can put it on Citrix and it works just fine there.  I have that very set   
   up on a Citrix farm.   
   Jim   
   "vincent delft"  wrote in message   
   news:5c184570.0310150022.2764994@posting.google.com...   
   > Thanks Jim,   
   >   
   > Does your OLE experience shows you that this must be reliable enough   
   > for 200 concurrent users connected via a WAN ?   
   >   
   > Other options would be to install the VB part on a Citrix. Does this   
   > is possible with OLE?   
   >   
   >   
   > "Jim Kennedy"  wrote in   
   message news:...   
   > > "vincent delft"  wrote in message   
   > > news:3f8c39ed$0$15646$ba620e4c@reader1.news.skynet.be...   
   > > > Hello,   
   > > >   
   > > > I must set-up an application with an Oracle Database running on Unix   
   and a   
   > > > GUI running on Windows 2000/XP machines.   
   > > > The size of the DB is about 5GB.   
   > > > The application will have about 1000 users and about 200 concurrent   
   users   
   > > > connected via a WAN.   
   > > >   
   > > > My management propose the combination Oracle - ODBC - Visual Basic.   
   > > >   
   > > > Does this will be stable and reliable enough ?   
   > > > Must I propose an another architectur ? (PowerBuilder ?, Java ?, ...)   
   > > > Does web based application can be cheaper (to build and maintain) than   
   VB   
   > >  ?   
   > > >   
   > > > Thanks for your feedbacks.   
   > > >   
   > > >   
   > > >   
   > > >   
   > > >   
   > > If you have to go with VB I would use Oracle's Ole Objects.  Fast, easy   
   to   
   > > use bind variables, easy to code, supports all the native types.   
   > > Jim   
      
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