[Xerte] Questions about Using Toolkits for larger User-baseDeployments

[Julian Tenney]

Hi,

 

We have 35,000 potential users on our network, and maybe a few hundred
of those actively producing materials. We've not really experienced any
problem with scalability - but we have the infrastructure to cope with
it. I don't think this is a limitation of the software itself, more the
infrastructure you have to run it on. So if you have a large cluster of
servers and loads of bandwidth, things will perform better than if you
run it on a localhost from a desktop machine under someone's desk...

 

Pat can better answer the security question - do you have any specific
concerns?

 

Collaboration is all built in to the tools so authors can share a
learning object with other users, and then both people can make edits to
it. The piece is locked from other editors whilst someone has it open.
This is a feature (a powerful one) of the software so you don't need to
worry about doing anything special.

 

You'll need to look at the authentication stuff yourself, but I know
others here are developing some knowledge about how best to do this, and
can answer more specific questions.

 

J

 

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Vince Byfield
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:17 PM
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Questions about Using Toolkits for larger
User-baseDeployments

 

Hello all, 

 

New user here--very impressed with Xerte.

 

Has anyone currently tested Xerte Toolkits with a significant number of
users (say 100+) authoring and publishing their own content? If so, I'd
like to hear from you. Specifically:

*         What sort of scalability issues are you running into?

*         What security precautions are you taking?

*         How are you handling users who wish to collaborate on
documents?

Also, we are planning to auto-authenticate to an MSSQL 2005 database
instead of LDAP. Has anyone tried this already? If so, please let me
know what problems you encountered along the way.

 

Many thanks :-)

 

Vince.

 

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