On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, August West wrote: >> >I work for a startup software company that is building a 100% Java web-based >training package. We're using the JRun webserver for servlets, and it's >all-in-all a pretty cool package. I've got the installers just about built >for Win32, and it looks like it's gonna be a while before Mac has a good 1.2 VM >and plugin. Personally, I'm rather sick of having to deal with NT, although I >realize it's not going to go away very soon. It's just very rewarding to >know that I'll be able to put our product out for Linux. It makes me feel very >good, and I wanted to take the time to thank you for putting in so much work on >the project. Thanks, At the risk of sounding like an Advocacy group, I agree. I work for a web design company and we programmers are trying to move away from the NT/ASP environment, and towards JRun/JSP. We're actually doing our site development now on a SuSE Linux box with Blackdown's JDK 1.1.7, and we find it very stable indeed (including the Swing-based config apps). We're still deploying the sites on IIS on NT, but hope to change that over time as our "let's do nasty experimental things" develop machine conspicuously has a perfect uptime record compared to the "let's make this a simple stable box" NT server which needs rebooting all the time. We're not moving up to 1.2 yet, therefore, as we want to wait for it to become available for all our platforms. We have a stable working environment here so there's no urgent need. -- Rachel Greenham Epinet Communications plc
