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I have been following this thread with a great deal of interest and it appears the overall conclusion is, at this point, most obvious:

Amazing Charts Version 6.x is simply not ready.

Amazing Charts is a client/server application that takes data entry into various fields on various windows of its GUI and writes the contents of those fields to corresponding tables in a SQL Server database. It also pulls data from that same SQL Server database to populate fields on those same screens when the user searches for data.

There should not be any:

* special processor requirements
* special video card requirements
* special memory requirements

If AC requires a specific version of the .Net framework, that should be published on the AC website somewhere.

Also, and I want everyone to listen to what I am about to type very carefully, there should not be any special server requirements. The VAST MAJORITY of people on this forum should be able to run AC just fine with a run-of-the-mill business class laptop or workstation. On the server end, a base class server should be fine for just about everyone here. Those of you that have a server that costs over $5,000 were either ROBBED, LIED TO, HAVE INCOMPETENT IT, or you have some special need in your office that you had best be aware of (that need not being AC, of course).

Let me give everyone an idea of what you should be doing with a server that costs $8,000 in hardware alone:

1. This server runs SQL Server 2008 Standard which hosts all of our reports using SQL Server Reporting Services, does all of our automation using SQL Server Integration Services such as auto-payment posting and interfacing with various EMR's, and hosts all of our databases.

2. This server runs our Exchange 2010 with over 50GB of email currently in the Exchange Message Store. All of our faxes as they come in are routed through Exchange as PDF attachements to the person who should get that fax based on caller ID.

3. This server has our Terminal Server which has anywhere between 70 - 80 concurrent users on it M - F.

4. This server runs our domain controller to authenticate users when they log in.

5. This server runs our Team Foundation Server for software development.

In short, this server runs 5 copies of Windows Server 2008 R2 at the same time via virtulizationg using Microsoft's Hyper-V. If you paid serious coin for your machine, you had best be getting the same utilization.

I'm sorry, everyone, but what I am seeing here doesn't make sense and I'm calling it out before the good people on this forum start wasting money.

JamesNT