Allegro extends user count with BFree
February 1, 2008
Allegro Consultants is one of the strong arms of the Resource 3000 alliance, but the legendary company continues to create new solutions for the 3000 community as it has for more than two decades. Allegro's Stan Sieler reports that a new BFree tool is giving customers an additional 25 percent user capacity — which could postpone 3000 hardware upgrade requirements.
We've released our BFree product. Our first customer reports:
> Below is the latest BFree with 1,650 users logged on:
>
> BFree: STATUS
> Extent B-tree status:
> # in use
> entries Table size %full #saved
> -------- ---------- ----- -------
> 129,691 199,728 64% 28,255
>
> BFree has saved 14.1% of the Extent B-Tree table
Homesteaders need a developer who knows the b-tree capabilities of IMAGE very well to do this kind of magic. Allegro was rumored to be deep inside the b-tree project when HP released the database feature during the 1990s.
Sieler added,
Translation: they were maxing out at about 1700 to 1800 users — they can now get another 400 users online!
The initial version of the product description page is at www.allegro.com/products/hp3000/bfree.html