by "Peter McMurray" <excalibur21@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
May 1, 2008 at 07:00 AM
Hi
That is all very well if you live just down the road. My personal
experience with Unix is that there is no sup****t in country towns and it
is
as reliable as a 3 legged donkey. The VME loses everything at the drop of
a
hat taking days of hard work to recover whereas Windows is not only
reliable
and sup****table from Antarctica and all points North the FSI is brilliant.
Also when I hear people say things like "I just roll my own kernel" or
"you
can normally get someone on a chat group to help" I shudder. Then of
course
there is the lack of drivers that may turn up for Linux a year or two down
the track, and of course installing something like ODBC on a unix box is a
wonderful world of mystery.
Peter McMurray
"Ross Ferris" <rossf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:96b97548-8128-4549-af80-8e4098c23432@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
May 1, 2:33 pm, "Terry Pennington" <terrypen_at_terrypen.com>
wrote:
> It completely escapes me why anyone would run D3 or any other back end
on
> a
> windows box. What's all this FSI and VME stuff anyway? Why not just
stick
> your database on unix/linux and get on with it?
>
> I have to say I started out as a windows/pc guy and quickly learned that
> was
> OK for the desktop but NOT OK for the back end. Learning to install and
> administer Linux with D3 on it was easy and it runs flawlessly for years
> on
> end.
"runs flawlessly for years" --> I had to make a physical visit to a
site last year to reboot their server because people had (literally)
forgotten how
"top" showed that the system had been up for 1189 days !!!
There was a time back in NT4 days when I would have been happy to get
that many minutes !!!
