> I have to agree here that NT has proved a very stable development
> platform for me (especially compared to Win9x) but this may be symptomatic
> of the technologies within delphi that are being exploited.
BUT, why should we accept having to reboot every 2-3 days?? Your average
unix box - on Intel, even, which is fairly crap as hardware goes - stays
up for weeks or months with >1 developer hacking away at it....
>
> Could I get a brief description of the types of technologies being used in
> those apps that caused so many problems with NT. EG MIDAS,
> Interbase, ORACLE, MSSQL, ACCESS, CORBA, OLE, TCPIP, IIS/ISAPI/NSAPI,
> DCOM, Dynamic package loading, Serial/Parallel Commsm, etc...
NT/IIS4/ASP/MSSQL6.5/ADO/ADO-MD/JRun(Java)/
I dont get too many problems running Delphi, but there again, I dont run
it that much - I get most of my problems with the underlying OS -
explorer crashing, apps not shutting down or working until other apps
shutdown (outlook being a prime example), IE not unloading until you
reboot etc
> I would be interested and so might Borland if they looking for areas to target
> for improvement... A test should be possible on D5 to see if those troublesome
> areas have been improved upon...
I dont think it's Borland's problem - not what I'm talking about,
anyway. MS has a history of shipping beta's and calling them release
software, and people are accepting this as the norm, which is arse, 'cos
stable systems CAN be written - look at OS/AS400, Solaris (which is not
without its problems), IRIX, BeOS etc.
Hell, I hacked away at an SGI O2 for most of a year without it being
rebooted. Except when I pulled out the powerplug when I was trying to
move it to get the s-video plug in. Had to kill off processes now and
again, tho, but the OS stayed up. I even managed to kill the ATM link
from tamaki to auckland uni by flooding it with UDP packets. The SGI
still ticked along just fine tho....
I suppose what I'm say is, there are much better options out there, but
they are not the norm on the desktop, and people in general have been
tuned to accept a VERY low level of stability and consider it normal.
N
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