[Colchester] Hello!

Wed Mar 6 10:55:07 UTC 2013

On 05/03/2013 20:38, Russell Briggs wrote:
>
> Hehe. Yes lets just agree sage is horrible but unfortunately is widely 
> used and most companies are reluctant to replace it with any open 
> source solutions :(
>
> As Ian says, hosting sage files on linux is not supported, and theres 
> no real need since most customers that insist on running Sage have a 
> suitable windows machine to host it on.
>
> We've written an integration service in C# (using SharpDevelop rather 
> than Visual Studio I hasten to add!) that runs on the windows sage 
> "server" and exposes functions from the sage API as JSON web services.
>
> We then call these services from python on our linux server to read 
> and write sage data. Seems to work well for us.
>
> Russ
>
> PS - Python is awesome :)
>
Well I insist that I install Linux servers which tends to mean that I 
host Sage on Linux. It works OK but I don't know if it can be tuned to 
work better than Windows but I think it can due to the SAMBA conf file.


> On Mar 5, 2013 8:02 PM, "Ian Snow" <ian.snow at btinternet.com 
> <mailto:ian.snow at btinternet.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Wayland
>
>     Lets hope this doesn't turn into a Sage support thread especially
>     with a starting subject of Hello!
>
>     Right Sage 50, oh the big pile of crap that it is.
>
>     Switching to Samba won't necessarily fix your issues and I'll
>     explain why, Sage 50 uses DTA files for its "database" which each
>     user's computer will read, lock to make changes, write the changes
>     and then save and the bigger the DTA fiiles get the longer that takes
>
>     Compare that to say a mysql server using myisam based tables, its
>     only the server that locks the files not each client
>
>     One thing that will help with Sage 50 performance is to make sure
>     that the AV product isn't scanning the directory where the Sage
>     data is stored, that definitely makes it slow
>
>     Ian
>
>     > On 04/03/2013 20:56, Ian Snow wrote:
>
>     > > Evening Russ
>
>     > >
>
>     > > I too am lucky enough to get to play with Linux at work, as I
>     admin Linux
>
>     > > database, web, dns and mail servers as well as hack php and
>     c++ admittedly
>
>     > > currently on Windows but we're moving to Qt so I can code on
>     linux and only
>
>     > > have to compile and test on Windows
>
>     > >
>
>     > > I've been using Linux for around a decade now, and at work on
>     the desktop for
>
>     > > the last year with Windows in a VirtualBox VM, due to this I
>     haven't had to
>
>     > > play with Wine in a commercial setting, and last used it at
>     home to play Wow
>
>     > > years ago before it irritated me too much to continue playing
>
>     > >
>
>     > > I happen to be a Sage 50 developer and I suspect your mileage
>     will vary, for
>
>     > > one thing Sage UK will likely not support running Sage on top
>     of Wine.
>
>     > > It also has a Sage SData Service these days and I'm not sure
>     how Wine handles
>
>     > > windows services
>
>     > >
>
>     > > Ian
>
>     > >
>
>     > Hello Russ and Ian,
>
>     >
>
>     > I would be interested in how to get Sage to run 20 users
>     reliably. What
>
>     > server tuning would be required.
>
>     > It should be possible to fine tune SAMBA so it works better for
>     Sage
>
>     > than Windows 2003.
>
>     >
>
>     > Regards,
>
>     > Wayland.
>
>     >
>
>     > >> Morning All!
>
>     > >>
>
>     > >> Just a quick message to say hello! I am a colchester resident
>     and technical
>
>     > >> director at Junari Ltd based in Colchester. I am lucky enough
>     to get play
>
>     > >> with Linux in my day job :)
>
>     > >>
>
>     > >> We use Ubuntu Linux servers to host OpenERP and Django-based web
>
>     > >> applications for our customers, and run a KVM-based internal
>     development
>
>     > >> environment.
>
>     > >>
>
>     > >> I also use linux (ubuntu desktop) on my work laptop and my
>     home PCs.
>
>     > >>
>
>     > >> Unfortunately we do still use Winblows on most of our
>     workstations in the
>
>     > >> office, mainly because our customers do too, and we integrate
>     with several
>
>     > >> windows-based products such as Sage 50 and Outlook.
>
>     > >>
>
>     > >> I am eager to change this at some point but I havn't really
>     had a chance to
>
>     > >> experiment with Wine / Crossover to see if its feasable. Would be
>
>     > >> interested if anyone has any experience of using Wine in a
>     commercial
>
>     > >> environment?
>
>     > >>
>
>     > >> We are also always on the lookout for good open source
>     developers!
>
>     > >>
>
>     > >> Look forward to meeting any local linux people!
>
>     > >>
>
>     > >> Russ
>
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