[U2] UD/UV/Win upgrade notes

2011-04-10 Thread Tony Gravagno
For anyone upgrading Universe and/or Unidata in Windows, I've posted some notes on my little experience with PE. In short, the upgrade is cleaner than in the past and it should only take a few minutes to do both of them, but there are a couple minor hangups.

Re: [U2] Opinions on Cache

2011-04-10 Thread Wols Lists
On 10/04/11 02:47, Dawn Wolthuis wrote: I am currently looking at how U2 fits in the cloud environment with products like Microsoft Azure and I think the model of U2 where each table is a separate os file is better for cloud computing than Cache's one system file (similar to the

Re: [U2] Opinions on Cache

2011-04-10 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: David Jordan From my observations, I don't quite agree on Tony's summation of Cache vs U2. You are of course welcome to disagree, and I might even agree with some of your points. But several of your points disagree with statements that I didn't make. Rather than go through each in

Re: [U2] Opinions on Cache

2011-04-10 Thread David Jordan
Rather my point about the Pick issue is not to say that it is not a problem, it is more the perception of how to sell Pick to senior executives. Business management are not as concerned about technology as they are about results. They may have a concern or a perception about the technology

Re: [U2] Opinions on Cache

2011-04-10 Thread Dawn Wolthuis
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Wols Lists antli...@youngman.org.ukwrote: On 10/04/11 02:47, Dawn Wolthuis wrote: I am currently looking at how U2 fits in the cloud environment with products like Microsoft Azure and I think the model of U2 where each table is a separate os file is

Re: [U2] Opinions on Cache

2011-04-10 Thread Tony Gravagno
And with your last note yes, we are in complete agreement. :) Thanks. T ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] Disclosing technology - Was 'Has anyone ever heard of Kyle Stetson?'

2011-04-10 Thread Dan McGrath
Just as an aside, there are better reasons for not making your underlying technology public knowledge. A lot of companies have it in their security policy to not disclose this information. Knowing a company's underlying architecture makes it easier to look for specific vulnerabilities or execute

Re: [U2] Disclosing technology - Was 'Has anyone ever heard of Kyle Stetson?'

2011-04-10 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Dan McGrath Just as an aside, there are better reasons for not making your underlying technology public knowledge. A lot of companies have it in their security policy to not disclose this information. Knowing a company's underlying architecture makes it easier to look for specific

Re: [U2] Disclosing technology - Was 'Has anyone ever heard of Kyle Stetson?'

2011-04-10 Thread Dawn Wolthuis
Agreed. When managing a Pr1me shop on a college campus in the early 90's when so many youngsters and hackers knew *nix or Windows, I really appreciated the added security by ignorance we had on our administrative machines. If students were going to hack, it would be on the boxes other than where