rrinker

How many users do you have? The frequency of lock contentions is directly related to the number of simultaneous users doing the same function or functions that require access to the same tables.
This may not be a bad thing - perhaps Dydacomp's programmers have realized there are a few more places where they need table and record locks to prevent data corruption.


--Randy

They now have their OWN Amazon order import/export module which is a $995 add-on.
Catch-22. If you were doing your own thing in addition to Sitelink, don't upgrade. But if you don't upgrade, good luck getting search engine visibility.

--Randy

we are considering using rattle as it would provide some productivity to the number of reports we generally run.

v11 also has a way to password protect reports, which is a major improvement.

I've been working with R&R and RattlerR for another client (non-MOM) and while it does work fairly well, deployment is NOT for the inexperienced. You need to custom write ASP code for each report to deploy. Some combinations of parameter passing do not seem to work. All reports that HAVE parameters must be changed to use the RIPARAM() function - parameter fields will be ignored by RattlerR.
I was informed by the Liveware tech that helped me get started that there are some major improvements coming down the road which should make RattlerR much easier to use.

--Randy

It's strange that I found this forum and read this post today; I just was noticing that momwin.exe's memory usage climbed past 1 GB when I tried to run the Accounts > Receivable > Customer Statements report. It also brought the pagefile up to 1.3 GB.

Getting back to the terminal server / text problem:
We use MOM with TS (2k3 SBS) over the intranet and internet everyday and have never seen this problem.

Yup, now imagine there's 30 users on the system....

The text problem sounds like a possible video resolution conflict. I've done a lot of Terminal Server and Citrix installs, including running my own custom Foxpro apps on them, and never have seen that happen.

--Randy

Our company been using MOM (I unwillingly since the first day) for a few years.  As far as I can tell, the first person to set it up must have thought that spam email was the only way to find out about software, because I can only imagine that's how someone could be fooled into using MOM. 

From the very first time I saw the program, I thought "My God, I hope we don't actually use that!".  Unfortunately, we do, and I have been struggling to keep up with the data corruption and inconsistencies.  Sitelink was bad, so we moved our website away from that (stupid people had a hand in that too, so it didn't help much) but MOM has been the one of the worst nighmares we have dealt with in our 7 years of business. 

I would recommend you do NOT ever get yourself stuck in the rut that this program will certainly get you in. Your best bet would be to find someone who understands the Linux and open-source community, and who will find software which will suit your particular needs.

We cancelled our service contract because they refused to help us once when we had a problem, and they still try to send us bills.  That makes me laugh.  Some/one of the SiteLINK servers got hacked once (that I know of) and five of their sites, including ours, were defaced for about a day with something about the U.S. being terrorists, so that was fun.

I honestly don't know if the service has improved, but Foxpro (the underlying code upon which the MOM application is based) has a very poor API, so you are going to learn that it does not operate the way you are used to Windows working most of the time, and the rest of the time, does not work at all.  If you are going to try to do any Windows API automation using tools such as UNISYN's Automate software, forget it.  The Foxpro API does not have any recognizable handles which can be effectively used this way.

MOM has repeatedly proven unreliable and inconsistent for just about everything it is trusted to do, so if you're looking for a hellish nightmare which will certainly make you wish you had never tried to use it to run a business, then I say "Go for it".  Otherwise, you'd better look elsewhere.

If I were you, I would also stay away from anything built around Windows web servers too, such as the DotNET architecture.

Microsoft software is only trouble, as eBay has finally decided to admit: http://www.ecommerce...ory/39325.html) and it is what MOM and SiteLINK are built on.

If you're serious about saving money and getting some serious, reliable software/hardware handling your data, then search the Gentoo forums for someone who knows Linux, Open Source, and e-commerce.  Someone there should be able to help you find what you need.

Please. Visual Foxpro is probably the last truly good development package Microsoft has. No matter WHAT the application is written in, if the underlying database design is bad, the application will be bad.