Just to be sure Tom, you are talking about window load times.  Click SO Entry and it opens in less than 3 seconds?  It's never loaded that fast for us and we've been through 3 different servers and moved from 10/100 to Gb.  The best I can get is the first time a window loads takes about 6 seconds.  Then any time it is used after that will open in 3 seconds.  It's almost as if the OS caches the files for the window the first time and then uses that cache each additional load.

Once the window loads, the data is fast.  I can flip through Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, etc in just a second.  The main issue is that initial window open time.  We also don't have any issues with speed of processing, at least nobody has ever complained about it.

I don't really know what to say now.  Without increased window load times, I see no reason to upgrade to Advanced except for the database consistency and for my 2 VPN users.

I have already implemented several of the items from the post by TheOtherGuy.  I'm aware of OpsLock and have always had it disabled on every server SageMAS has been on.  We run a Gb network and I haven't seen a discernible difference between Forced 1000 and AutoNeg 1000.

Our current server is a Virtual Machine with 4 processing cores assigned to it and 10GB of ram available strictly for that VM.  It sits idling all day and barely squeaks past 4GB of memory usage.  Network IO is next to nothing also.

dlevasseur, I now understand shaving those seconds off of your initial screen load time is your primary reason for considering the upgrade.

I am not sure if Sage Advanced would help but it might. You should speak with your partner, he might be able to set up a sample install.

That said, i know you aren't concerned with report speeds but if you haven't before you might want to try running a GL Detail Report from one of your workstations, then run the same report from your server.  On a Sage 100 Standard install with Oplocks disabled the differnece should be pretty significant.