Re: [U2] Quick poll - how many use 3-tier or N-tier Architecture

2010-04-09 Thread djordan
There is a new weapon that you can throw at this argument, that is cost and deliverables. Boards and CEOs and professional CIOs are frustrated at the cost and delays, where deliverables are not being met. Forget the technical arguments and focus on the financial ones. CEOs and boards do not know

Re: [U2] Quick poll - how many use 3-tier or N-tier Architecture

2010-04-09 Thread Holt, Jake
Baker, You probably already know this, but we're using both an ERP system developed in UniBasic as well as multiple applications built in C#/UniObjects. Most of the new development is done in C#/UniObjects. Jake (a converted SQL Server Homer) -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@li

Re: [U2] Quick poll - how many use 3-tier or N-tier Architecture

2010-04-09 Thread Symeon Breen
Absolutely Brian, i agree wholeheartedly - However try having that conversation with a "computer science guro"... but then again they don't live in the real world. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Br

Re: [U2] Common Table Expressions

2010-04-09 Thread Robert Houben
Good point, and I agree with you. CTE would be a potentially very useful enhancement. I just used one to solve a problem in TSQL for a customer. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Boydell, Stuart Sent:

Re: [U2] Quick poll - how many use 3-tier or N-tier Architecture

2010-04-09 Thread Charles_Shaffer
Any new development here is done with web client front-end. Applications are served from LAMP web servers. Backend servers include Unidata, MS Sql Server and some MySql. Still support applications with VB6 and VB.NET front-ends using Unidata and MS Sql Server backends. Also still supporting L

Re: [U2] Quick poll - how many use 3-tier or N-tier Architecture

2010-04-09 Thread Rex Gozar
a. Two tiers: frontend GUI and backend U2 basic. b. We don't use Websphere. c. We use u2pipe to connect ColdFusion/PHP/C# applications to the U2 backend business logic. d. No java. e. Yes, we use C#. f. We also use ColdFusion and PHP to frontend our applications. Und

Re: [U2] Quick poll - how many use 3-tier or N-tier Architecture

2010-04-09 Thread Brian Leach
Hmm, I'm guessing what's behind the question is the need to respond to the usual 'this is a legacy text based system' nonsense. If I'm wrong in that, please forgive the following soapbox! I haven't written text based stuff in years (unless I have no choice), so practically every system I've worked

Re: [U2] AIX Sendmail - Name Lookup Failure

2010-04-09 Thread Carl Dula
Many times these problems are the result of the nameserver. sendmail cannot resolve the domain name to an address. To test do: nslookup www.google.com If you quickly get an answer, then that is not it. If you do not, and if the nameserver is local and on this or another AIX system, th

Re: [U2] Quick poll - how many use 3-tier or N-tier Architecture

2010-04-09 Thread Edward Brown
Hi Unidata <--> mv.Net <--> c# / vb6 front ends Works nicely. Sometimes there's web services between the top two tiers as well. Ed -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Baker Hughes Sent: 08 April 2010 18

Re: [U2] Quick poll - how many use 3-tier or N-tier Architecture

2010-04-09 Thread Symeon Breen
Yes Ud on the backend Asp.net webservices layer on top using uniobjects.net Asp.net front end that utilises the web services layer Ontop of that there may also be a javascript and ajax layer that utilises services which are part of the asp.net front end layer and then render html dynamically withi