Valentina and Revolution...

[Martin Steer]

>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> I'm in the process of researching a development tool to use to... 
>> well, develop in. What's the performace like with Revolution 
>> applications and Valentina as the server? Any pro's? Any con's?
>>
>
> It is hard to say since your question is not clear. Do you want to use 
> Valentina as a database engine for a web server or setup a 
> client-server database? What clients? What being served? How many 
> simultaneous users? Which OS? Etc etc.
>
> There are pros and cons for each as well as a number of alternatives, 
> so the more you tell us the better answer you can get.
>

Thanks for replying Rob. I knew as I was writing the email that it was 
probably lacking in content and definition. Sorry.

We want to develop a client/server application for doctors. So, it will 
keep patient info, accounts, an appointment diary... xray's, notes, and 
other Doctor related stuff. These are the main functions though. We'd 
like it all to be networked so client's terminals update accordingly as 
changes occur in the database.
 From 1 - approx. 20 users and running on Mac and PC.

What I'm mainly concerned about is the speed, ease of development and 
application maintainability for the backend if it were to be coded in 
Rev and Valentina. The frontend is taken care of in Rev.

I know that Rev uses untyped objects (pretty much just 'String's) as 
it's main data type, so how effectively and efficiently does Valentina 
work with this? Databases are traditionally heavily type cast for their 
internal optimisations for speed, so do the generalisations Rev applies 
to software development impede Valentina at all? Or is it as fast as 
it's other implementations such as C++, REALBasic, Java, etc?

Heh, once again, sorry for the vagueness before.

Ta,

Marty Steer
martin at pixelmedia.com.au