I work at a Canadian hospital where the main clinical application is Cerner. In the IT Dept we usually stick with thin installs (connect to Citrix server) but we throw thick installs on a small number of computers that need to work. The thick install is roughly 2GB, 5k files. For fun, I looked at what made up a 2GB enterprise application: 800 executables 1200 help files 2000 dll's 1000 ActiveX controls
I have no idea how it works. Well, that's not entirely true, when you do something wrong it throws VBErrors, so I figured it's mostly coded in VB6.
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I work at a Canadian hospital where the main clinical application is Cerner. In the IT Dept we usually stick with thin installs (connect to Citrix server) but we throw thick installs on a small number of computers that need to work. The thick install is roughly 2GB, 5k files. For fun, I looked at what made up a 2GB enterprise application:
800 executables
1200 help files
2000 dll's
1000 ActiveX controls
I have no idea how it works. Well, that's not entirely true, when you do something wrong it throws VBErrors, so I figured it's mostly coded in VB6.
The problem with this is that they assumed that ./ readers would actually read the article :)