We're getting a custom RIA built using flex/flash for the front-end, the display is a scrollable timeline that shows about 100 out of 8,000 total results at a time. Results can be filtered by one of 4-5 criteria. So as a user filters and/or scrolls, we expect a remote call/pagination of some sort for another 100 or so results, each record is about 150 bytes but for us speed is everything. This gets to my question about the right architecture to deliver fast results given our existing environment.
We're on a single dedicated server with IIS6 and asp, not .NET. The various apps that have been suggested include blaseDS or CF9 for the flash remoting but we're not sure how we'd integrate either into our existing box. The widget will be on the homepage while every other page on the site will still run on .asp pages.
My questions are - can we and/or should we install either of these on our existing ded to meet our fast data request goals, and if not, what other solution would make sense?
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