On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 09:48:18PM -0700, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > On 3/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > With regards to Mono, it's a new technology, it's not proven to be a > > stable Linux platform, and frankly it just makes me ask--why not Java? > > Installing a Mono app requires me to download, install, and run an > > entirely different VM alongside my already existing Java apps.
I try not to have any Java apps running, so that's not much of a problem for me. > The Yet-another-VM thing bugs me too, but Mono isn't really all that > new and it's being used in production quite a lot. Novell's Zenworks > Linux Management product uses it, and that's an "enterprise" product. > I guess Java has been around a lot longer, but I'd be really surprised > if you ran across a runtime bug while using Mono. That's not to say I worked on ZENworks. We bumped into Mono bugs all the time. > that it's perfect, just that I doubt it's less stable than anything > else and that you're more likely to find a bug in a application It was less stable than the Java stuff we ran when I was on ZENworks. But it also used 600 MiB less of memory than the average Java app. -Roberto -- Backup is for whimps! /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
