Their cup runneth over. What's the app? The problem is that if you require them for support, they could deny you wirth any config they don't like. Hire about you put together a virtual for this purpose, if you are unable to force the issue at the higher levels of their organization.
You could also arrange for them to sport you in your preferred configuration for up to 90 data to see if there are really problems with it. Did you buy the app, our is this a pilot testing period? -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Oct 20, 2010 10:34 AM, "James Kerr" <cluster...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have a software vendor thats telling me we need to buy a server solely > for running reports on another database. It uses SQL server 2008. We already > have a server in place that has plenty of horsepower that currently has > another application on it the uses SQL 2008. I asked if we could just use > that existing server and I was told the following. "it requires the default > SQL instance to work and should not run on a server with another named > instance of SQL". I have the feeling they are full of it but my SQL knowlege > is very limited, the hardware specs for the server are not very high and it > doesnt look like this report server uses much resources other then high disk > IO when running reports or importing data (at night) from the other database > it reports on. I really don't want to buy another server. What say some of > the folks on the list? > > James > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
