Pierre,
Is there any way that you can quantify "faster" and "more stable" for
us? I would love to be able to show my manager some real world differences
between Linux and Windows.
Thanks,
Bob McConnell
N2SPP
At 05:19 AM 12/8/98 +0100, Pierre LATECOERE wrote:
>Congratulations to Blackdown! Thanks to your JDK, porting my Java
>program from Windows to Linux was more than easy.
>
>I have just finished porting a Java program to Linux using blackdown
>116. The result is excellent!
>
>The program was originally developed under INPRISE JBuilder 2.01 on Win
>NT4. (www.inprise.com).
>The application (5,000 lines of code) uses mostly swing components for
>the UI. I have decided to limit myself to "core" JDK classes and swing
>to avoid potential porting problems.
>The application make heavy use of relational database access (15 tables,
>10,000 records about).
>The database used here is Interbase 5. Interbase runs on several Unix
>platforms, Windows and was recently ported to Linux (www.interbase.com).
>
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>
>After testing the application for a few days, I am happy to report that
>I have encountered no problem. I have exactly the same results on Linux
>as with Windows NT4, with one major advantage: it all runs faster under
>Linux and is of course more stable.
>
>Although I am certainly less technically competent than most of you, I
>will be happy to share my experience of developing and migrating from
>Windows to Linux.
>
>Thanks again to Blackdown for your outstanding work.
>
>Pierre LATECOERE
