Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Evan Harris
> you still have no database sizings, no user numbers,
> no transaction volume ... nothing that would allow an
> alternate solution or proposal to be developed or costed ...

We develop software for K-12 schools.  Let's say an average school district of 
20,000 students and 1,000 faculty.  Parents and students may be connecting to 
servers to work with assignments, instructions, curriculum, audio/visual media, 
tests, grades, attendance, standardized assessments, student demographic data, 
bus schedules, locker assignments, health & immunization, education plans, 
course requests, messages, etc.  Teachers would be maintaining grade-book data, 
recording attendance, etc.  Counselors and Administrators performing queries and 

maintenance, too.  Batch reports.  State reporting.  Data exports.  Perhaps up 
to 10,000 concurrent HTTP server connections.  Perhaps up to 2,000,000 requests 
per hour for dynamically generated content and DB updates. Perhaps 300 DB 
tables, 800 indexes or SQL views.  A dozen tables may have 1-2 million records 
each.

I've shared a link to a promotional video in the past, but just in case anyone 
might be interested in the UI:

http://www.relational-data.com/promo/promo.php

What sort of platform (hardware, OS, Database) are we needing?

-Nathan