I am coming back to this conversation a bit late, but has Gallery Systems spoken up on Vista support? I seem to recall them stating to me it was not supported/ready under Vista.
Has this changed?
I would second the vote of waiting on Vista for Windows 7 - I don't see any advantage to an enterprise upgrade at this point. Still, I would want to hear from Gallery Systems for a timeline to support Windows 7 with the client side app.
Best,
Thomas
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From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Armstrong
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 2:33 PM
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Subject: Re: TMS and Vista: a quick question
Brenda,
If Vista is an absolute requirement there, it might be worth suggesting
to the technical services staff that they use Virtual PC to create a
virtual XP machine for the TMS users. That way you can run Vista on the
desktop, and still run TMS under XP. That should buy you some time
until Gallery Systems can figure out what to do with Vista.
It's really odd that they are forcing you into a Vista upgrade. The
smart money seems to be on sticking with XP and waiting for Windows 7
which is coming out soon.
Good luck.
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From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Brenda Podemski
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 2:19 PM
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Subject: Re: TMS and Vista: a quick question
Well, our technical services division is upgrading ALL our PCs to Vista,
so it's coming whether we want it to or not! It's good to be prepared
for what to expect however, so I appreciate your feedback.
Cathryn: interesting about the good performance. Are you on Service
Pack 3 or 4? I know 4 fixes some problems with User Defined Forms, but
I haven't heard anything about Data Views...
b
>>> Cathryn Goodwin <[log in to unmask]> 7/3/2009 6:50 AM >>>
I have to agree - we've experienced oddities with custom data views
with TMS on Vista - data views that work fine on xp....we're on windows
servers and haven't noticed slower performance.
Cathryn
-----Original Message-----
From: The Museum System (TMS) Users on behalf of Smith, Jeffrey
Sent: Fri 7/3/2009 8:23 AM
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Subject: Re: TMS and Vista: a quick question
I would avoid Vista if possible; there are certainly no advantages to
using it.
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From: The Museum System (TMS) Users on behalf of Brenda Podemski
Sent: Thu 7/2/2009 6:54 PM
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Subject: TMS and Vista: a quick question
Hi all,
The Getty is upgrading Getty staff computers to Windows Vista, and
during our testing with TMS we noticed that response times are markedly
slower than they are now -- general navigation in the system and running
queries appears to be a bit sluggish. I have heard that Vista in
general is markedly slower than previous versions of Windows, but I
wonder if there are any of you out there who have made this change
already and can confirm or deny?
And if you're running TMS on Oracle, could you mention that as well?
Many thanks,
Brenda
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