this is, I think, 3pm NZDT wednessday, but I'm not sure. The site is not up quite yet, tho :) > On May 8, 2001, at 10:00am PDT (1700 GMT) we will be hosting a moderated > live chat > on the Borland Community Web Site. > > The subject of this chat will be "Borland's Next Generation Web Services > Strategy." > > Since this could be of interest to one or two people out there, the chat > may > get a little crowded, so we'd like to do some capacity testing TONIGHT > for it. > > If the site is configured appropriately in time, Anders Oh!, Christine > Ellis and > myself will be moderating a general, free-for-all test chat in the > Delphi room at > 7:00 pm PDT (200 GMT, Tuesday) to see how much traffic our router can > stand. > > The link for the chat test is: http://chatjet.borland.com/delphi > > If this room isn't available yet, that means it hasn't been configured > properly yet. > > (A little background) > For the Kylix launch chat, we had about 120 people, then we started > experiencing > bandwidth problems with the router. The chat machine itself was fine, of > course, > since it was built with Kylix <g>. For the Interbase chat, we had just > under 100 > people (97, IIRC) so we don't know for sure if the load problems have > been solved. > > So, we'd like to try to get 300 - 500 people hitting the box tonight if > possible. > If you can help test it, I'd really appreciate it. If we hit problems > with some > lower number, we can throttle back the chat server to deny additional > people > logging in to the chat. Obviously, everyone is welcome to attend, so > we'd like > to make sure we can gracefully handle an overload of people and give > them a "room > capacity has been set at <x> by the fire marshall" message instead of > some ugly > web error. > > If you can help participate in the chat, or you haven't heard of our > chat server > before, please go to http://community.borland.com/chat/ to make sure > you're all > set for the chats both at 200 GMT and at 1700 GMT. > > Thanks for your help keeping the community site working for you. > > -- > John Kaster, Borland Developer Relations, http://community.borland.com > $1150/$50K: Thanks to my donors! > http://homepages.borland.com/jkaster/tnt/thanks.html > Buy Kylix! http://www.borland.com/kylix * Got source? > http://codecentral.borland.com > The #1 Java IDE: http://www.borland.com/jbuilder --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi"
