Fair enough. Another way to do it could be to install it and forget it.
Unlike NT, you dont usually have to reboot linux (or otherwise touch it)
every week or so - I have a development box at work thats been up for about
80 days at the moment, and its running all sorts of stuff.
Looks like the MS FUD machine wins again :(
N - RHCE :)
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Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand
main line: 09.360.0231 / ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 021.676.418
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Jerermy Coulter
> Sent: Monday, 17 July 2000 10:47
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: IB 5.6
>
>
> Yeah we have in the past looked at Linux, Before I started here, and the
> problem is that no one here has enough knowledge on Linux, and it was
> decided that it would be too hard to maintain with clients over
> the phone as
> we sometimes have to.
> There is a REAL resistance to it here, and also from some of our
> clients....so...
>
> Cheers, Jeremy Coulter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Nic Wise
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 10:41 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: IB 5.6
>
>
> I would also think seriously about the Linux thing too - I'm serious about
> the performance difference - one of our sites ("our" in the
> loosest sense of
> the word - we just sold them IB, not developed the app they run
> over it) had
> a network and system crash, and their IB server (NT) got nuked.
> They got it
> back up enough to get the GDB file off, and they stuck it on a Linux box
> with 1/2 the processing power (going from NT with dual PII 450's / 512meg
> RAM to Linux w/ single PII 450 / 512meg RAM), and it performed identically
> under the same load.
>
> Should just how BAD windows' VM management and task scheduling is!
>
> N
>
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> Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand
> main line: 09.360.0231 / ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 021.676.418
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Jerermy Coulter
> > Sent: Monday, 17 July 2000 10:32
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > Subject: RE: [DUG]: IB 5.6
> >
> >
> > OOHHH ....!!!
> >
> > WELL...we will have to implement it !
> >
> > Thanks for that !
> >
> > Jeremy Coulter
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Nic Wise
> > Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 10:26 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > Subject: RE: [DUG]: IB 5.6
> >
> >
> > Jeremy,
> >
> > you should, under no circumstances that I know of, be using
> 5.5. It has a
> > BIG bug in it that makes the server crash when it tries to sweep the
> > database.
> >
> > Needless to say, this is NOT good.
> >
> > Get 5.6 - AFAIK its a free upgrade. Better yet, get 5.6 for
> Linux - not a
> > free upgrade tho - as it runs about 1.5-2x the speed of NT,
> > especially under
> > load.
> >
> > Nic.
> > --
> > Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand
> > main line: 09.360.0231 / ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 021.676.418
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter
> > Sent: Monday, 17 July 2000 10:22
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > Subject: [DUG]: IB 5.6
> >
> >
> > Hi all.
> > Just wondering, does anyyone use IB 5.6 ?
> > We use 5.5, and have for a while, and the other day I got a CD
> that had IB
> > 5.6 on it.
> > Is the diff. between them worth upgrading too ??
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > Jeremy Coulter (Software Development Team Leader)
> > Triton Commercial Systems
> > 6A Burdale Street
> > Riccarton
> > Christchurch
> > ( +64 3 3483973 Fax +64 3 3431613
> > http://www.tritoncomsys.com
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