I would like to note that I am writing this from my G5 DP 2.5 GHZ box, and I develop solely on the mac, and administrate my servers from it with Mac RDC. And I still think the mac is superior as a desktop OS. And I say that as someone who develops desktop software that must run on both platforms.
But as a server OS, looking at the big picture, windows just works, and is easily managed. Just keep them patched.
Roland, you would probably save a lot of headaches if you could see if the guys at witango will let you trade in your license. I don't know if that is possible.
Just my 2 cents. I have gotten a lot of clients up with OS X and Witango, but it has always been stabler and cleaner on windows.
If you can't move over to win, I hope your upgrades flush out the problem. Sounds like a major bummer.
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We've gotten around most of our problems by using JDBC instead of ODBC or OCI (Oracle).
Admittedly, there're still some remaining problems with JDBC and CLOBs in Oracle, but aside from that...
On Mar 20, 2005, at 10:42 PM, Phil Wade wrote:
Jason you nailed it in one. On OS X it is a dysfunctional project team.
This is what makes it so hard to layer the witango server on top of the
"Standard" unix libraries and frameworks like ldap and iodbc. On top of the
this each db vendor creates their own set of datasource parameters and
buries there description deep inside their documentation. They all install
them in different locations and the Apple ODBC Administrator Application is
not fit for use. If anyone wants to put together a one page cheat sheet on
how to install and configure an ODBC driver for their database of choice we
are more than happy to put them on the developer.witango.com site.
I am assuming that you have reported all the odbc issues you have to Apple.
We have talked to quite a few of the engineers and bugs get prioritiesd
bases on how much it affects and Apple product and then by how many people
complain or are affected by the issue. If you have not reported your issues
report them to Apple and maybe the odbc framework and ODBC Administrator
will get fixed. There has been no work performed by Apple on ODBC for over
3 years. Tiger does have the latest iodbc installed which is a step in the
right direction.
https://bugreport.apple.com/
If you do not have an Apple ID join the Connect program (free online membership). https://connect.apple.com/
Another source of information and access to the Apple engineers is via their
developer site.
http://developer.apple.com
Let me pose a challenge to the OS X community. I know that there are users
of an assortment of different dbs on OS X out their so send me a HOW TO
document with diagrams and step by step procedures for MySQL, Oracle,
PrimeBase, OpenBase, FileMaker and I will have them online within 24 hours
of receiving them.
Regards
Phil
On 21/03/2005, at 1:26 PM, Jason Schulz wrote:
Pain as in each of the components involved behave as if they are part of a
dysfunctional project team where each member hoards what they know and won't
lift a finger to do anything in case it results in someone else looking good
to the PM.
Mac point and click? I'd settle for it _working_ like it does on windows. I
don't mind using terminal and text files, so why tempt me with an ODBC
utility breaks things and makes the whole process slower? Like I need a gui
to give me six blank label/value pair fields when I can open the config
file, copy the whole block and then change the three field values that need
changing.
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J.
On 21/03/2005, at 12:57 PM, Customer Support wrote:
Pain as in crashes all the time or pain as in Apple/OS X do not make it easy
to configure them in a Mac point and click way?
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