Re: [foxboro] Exceed

Dwayne,
        Thanks for sharing this information in such detail with the group.
We purchased ~40 Exceed licenses and are heavily into utilizing Win 2k dual
headed PC's for two thirds of our operator HMI's in our central control
room.  The other third are dual headed WP-51D's running and serving remote
DM's to the PC's.  This is an extremely cost effective solution that
provides a lot of flexibility as well.  I remember hearing about EOD before
but never received such a clear explanation of it's capabilities.  It could
greatly simplify our remote DM management issues.  Again, thanks for
sharing.  This is what makes the list so great.  Thanks, too, to Alex
Johnson for clarifying the INTools/INvensys-Foxboro relationship.

Tom VandeWater
Control Systems Developer/Analyst
Dow Corning Corp.
Carrollton, KY  USA

-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Landry, Dwayne
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 10:48 AM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Exceed


To get more information on PPGs utilization of the product read on.

We have 2 WP51D boxes running 6.3 with DM and 2 WP51F boxes running
7.X with DM. Each of the 7.X WPs have 14 additional DMs available,=20
and the 2 D boxes have 5 each. There is no Hummingbird software
installed on these boxes, only scripts. We have a single Windows 2K
server with the Exceed on Demand Server running on it with 45
licenses and 4 profiles, ( 1/profile for each WP ) Depending on the
appropriate windows group / security the users can access these
Profiles/WPs. We purchased the licenses such that the client is
free to install and the EOD server manages the licenses for us.
Upon starting a client you receive on your PC an Openwindows
desktop ( Blue Screen ), you then right click and choose I/A Display
Manager. As an added benefit the EOD is extremely thin and doesn't
use very much bandwidth at all. There are also a few other nice
features such as a timeout from user inactivity, better use of
colors, ease of making the blink task work and it can also run
directly on the Foxboro WP/Solaris or on Linux.
We went with Windows 2000 due to our lack of Linux base. With a
base user population of over 200 the benefits of the license
management makes the swap worthwhile. The cost of ownership is also
lower, Instead of having to purchase 200 copies of Exceed for Windows
we purchased the 45 licenses of EOD. Since we only have around 40 DMs
available that's all we need.

We are also using this as a replacement for Go Global. An additional
EOD server was installed directly on another WP which has a net=20
blazer router/modem and we get full function DMs from it via a 56k
modem at an impressive speed. This utilization is only for the
Process Control staff and when they connect here we have IP
restriction, CTS authentication and tracking.
Thanks,
Dwayne Landry
PPG Industries Inc.
Lake Charles, LA. 70601


-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald Stear [mailto:rstear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 7:59 AM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Exceed


Is anyone aware of Hummingbird's Exceed on Demand product?  It provides =
you
with a server with license management for as many exported displays as =
you
care to license.  It also handles the bottleneck of having more Exceed =
users
than DM licenses quite well.  PPG Lake Charles installed this produce
shortly after my retirement but I have visited and see that they are =
very
satisfied with it.


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