Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Getting Started:
Database Essentials

Determining configuration options

The OpenEdge RDBMS architecture and its wide range of supported system platforms allow flexible configuration options. A very simple configuration might support a single user on a PC system. A complex configuration might include heterogeneous, networked systems supporting hundreds of users accessing multiple databases, including non-OpenEdge databases.

Your business needs determine your choices for the following variables:

System platform
Connection modes
Client type
Database location
Database connections

The following sections explain how these variables affect your configuration.