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- From: michaelh@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Mike Hennahane)
- Subject: Re: 4D and accounting problems
- Message-ID: <michaelh.724550940@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
- References: <BzDKIx.KM9@umassd.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 00:09:00 GMT
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- rufus@cis.umassd.edu (Rui N. Campos) writes:
- [...]
- >This database invloves the usual things: inventory, Acounts Payable,
- >Accounts Receivable, Vendor maintenance... I have never done any 4D work
- >that required accounting. My question is: Is 4D suitable for general ledger,
- >and payroll, among other accounting problems, or am I better off looking
- >elsewhere?
-
- 4d is suitable for anything, if you know what the design issues are...
- i have done accounting systems before with no problems, but every
- client has different needs and likes to do things in a different way.
- :-(
-
- >One more question. How is 4d's performance over networks, and what is a good
- >server for this?
-
- get as fast a server as you can; performance is proportional to the
- server speed. the performance of 4d server is surprisingly good; you
- will probably even get adequate performance without ethernet (although
- enet helps a lot).
-
- --mike
-