From CC3 to......something else

[synaesthesia]

I must admit some of RM's prices didn't used to be that competitive but recently in both the server and workstation departments they've been able to beat just about everyone hands down. I've had some cracking deals especially on desktops from them which are giving stupidly high powered systems for less money than Acer/Dell/HP/Whiteboxes Built by your Heads Best Mates Cousin who can Work VCRs that are barely capable of word processing with Vista without curling up in a metal ball and crying into their mousemat.

[maestromasada]

I'm really disappointed and increasingly worried for what I'm reading here, and I wish I knew about this forums before.

We've been running RM 3.2 for a few years and this summer time we are getting the upgrade for CC4 (nearly June and still they haven't provide with installations dates!!). I knew that CC4 had problems when it was first released, and I thought it would now mature and in a good state to migrate to, but that's not the case, is it?

You guys that migrated from CC3 to CC4, any advice in increasing performance?

Thank you very much in advance.

[synaesthesia]

It's really not all that bad as long as you've some decent hardware behind it. Anything more modern than a 2GHz P4 with at *least* 1GB of ram should be absolutely fine, and thankfully RAM isn't a hugely expensive commodity so a fairly cheap upgrade all round.

There's little else you can really do with it performance wise - obviously a decent network behind it will certainly help. Hopefully you'll have SR2 installed off-the-bat meaning you'll lose the RMGina login system which does add a bit of time - I've started removing this already from my SR1 networks and this has helped login time by quite a bit. However until everything's running solid state and PC's boot up in 1 second flat, people will never be happy Had one member of staff jokingly moan at me that the PC she was using was taking an age to start up. Had great delight in informing her that 1 minute from start to login and a further 10-15 seconds to full usability is hardly bad - especially when I'd just added another 2GB of ram the week before and it used to be well over twice that time, not that she noticed!

[maestromasada]

Thanks for the tips Synaesthesia! our specs are not that bad, but will invest in ram just to be on the safe side.

[Roberto]

I'm not a fan of CC3 / CC4 but in my opinion it makes a lot of sense to have that or something like it if you want to buy a solution from someone and use it pretty much "as is" without customising it. This can work well for a smaller org, or one with a small support team, where you want something that "just works" without a lot of bother.

 

If you start wanting to make changes and set up custom stuff that the people designing your "middleware" didn't anticipate then you can end up fighting against their stuff, and the value of having it rapidly changes.

Edited May 24, 2010 by Roberto

[circlestech]

We are looking into CC4 but the costs seems quite huge!

[CommodoreS]

CC4 is still very unstable. Its a good system to have if you don't mind having to rebuild stations every time a software core update is released, which is quite often. Everyone is waiting for update 85 to be released before rebuilding stations after installing SR2, but RM has not been telling anyone when they are going to release update 85, and have only just said it could be yet another 2 weeks away, leaving one week of holidays left. It does not make things easy when planning to update several schools. Even the main ATSS partners are complaining and saying stuff like they want to blow up the system with C4. RM Communities