| Lennox Computer |
| Software Design Installation & Support |
| 132 Virginia Avenue HAWTHORNE, QLD 4172 Phone: 07 3395 7733, Fax: 07 3395 7732 http://www.lennox.com.au eMail: sales@lennox.com.au |
| Newsletter April 2010 |
| Greetings to all our LILAC users and staff. We hope everyone is experiencing a resurgence in business activity this year. Certainly at Lennox Computer we are finding a much improved business environment and strong demand for our products and services. |
| 64-bit Technology |
| Doug Lennox |
| Ailsa Lennox |
| Electronic Data Interchange - EDI |
| Business to Business (B2B) electronic trading is becoming a major topic and is generating a lot of activity in the IT
industry at the moment. Lennox Computer are heavily involved in the development and deployment of a variety of EDI
strategies for several LILAC users at this point in time, and we invite all our clients to consider the needs and benefits
for EDI functionality in their future operations. In some cases the requirement for EDI is driven by particular trading partners. For example many of the large retailers are starting to insist that their suppliers at the wholesale & distributions level deal electronically with them or forfeit the business or in some case incur extra charges or "fines" for continuing to trade on paper. The cost of software and services from Lennox Computer in the deployment of EDI strategies can vary from fairly trivial amounts to quite large expenditure, depending on the strategy selected and the scale and complexity of the relationship. THe following list of strategies is in rough order of increasing cost: 1 Automatic creation & transmission of PDF invoice & order documents by eMail. 2 The interchange of EXCEL compatible data in a bi-lateral agreed format. 3 The use of XML structured order & invoice data to Lennox Computer specification. 4 The use of LILAC Remote Client software into your database by trading partners. 4 Use of Lennox Computer Active Server technology for HTML based access to LILAC data-base by others. 5 Full UN/EDIFACT support to published standards. |
| Microsoft Windows 7 |
| Lennox Computer has been using Windows 7 as our standard offering on workstation & smaller server installation for some months now and are happy to report that it provides a huge step forward from the much maligned Windows Vista product. Windows 7 is a very adequate server environment for LILAC operations up to 20 workstations, always providing that you don't need any of the extra server facilities offered by Windows Server 2008. |
| All PC hardware that Lennox Computer install now - both in the server and workstations roles - uses Intel CPU chips
which are 64-bit capable. All except the cheapest entry-level configurations use the Intel i7 CPU with either 8 or 12
execution threads and 6 Giga-bytes of 3-way interleaved memory. We are using 64-bit version of Windows exclusively - either Windows 7, 64-bit or Windows Server 64-bit as the case may be. The current editions of our LILAC packages are fully developed, tested and certified for use in 64-bit environments, although at this point in time there is no 64-bit code in the standard LILAC release as the installed base of LILAC hardware platforms is predominately 32-bit machines which cannot run 64-bit programs. We are in the process of developing a 64-bit edition of our GTL Very High Level Programming Langauge technology which will mean that existing GTL programs which comprise about 2/3 of the LILAC software package will start to run in 64-bit mode on suitable hardware and Windows versions. The main benefit of 64-bit operation of course is the ability to handle much larger data-bases - many tera-bytes in size. 32-bit systems are restricted to a maximum database size of 4 gigabytes. |
