First of all - Thank you very much to all who replied and are trying to help! Totally appreciated!
Now in somewhat direct response to this message and my experience... We spent several thousand dollars on WiTango 5.0 - and I personally spend a fair number of *months* trying to get it to work at the time... And in fact, by the time I _did_ get it working even reasonably well, WiTango 5.5 was already out! Now from what I seem to understand 5.5 is is really the stable product? I really don't think I can consider this acceptable by any means. Yes - back then I do seem to recall that there was a "special discount" or some such thing to upgrade at the time... But in hindsight and particularly now that I hear this and with the timing of the release of 5.5 after the people at WiTango *knew* how much time and trouble I had gone through to get 5.0 even functional.. I don't know what to say. To be fair, at least a few weeks at the end of those months of hassle was due to an extremely difficult to track down hardware issue... But that certainly had nothing to do with the initial (boatload of) trouble I had getting it to the point where it was even fully functional what with the ODBC problems I had and all that! I originally had planned to use SQL Server as the DB and even had them spend a few thousand dollars on a server only to find that the only stable ODBC connector to SQL Server cost $3,000 itself! So that server just sat around until it got picked for parts and we went back to using FileMaker. And I do have to say that the people from WiTango who worked with me on my problems were great. They never gave up and went all out to make sure it did finally get working for me. I just can't say I'm real happy with the way things have turned out I guess. Sorry. Enough rant. On a side note, to Robert - I would have gone windows all the way in the first place if it'd been up to me. It's the people that own and maintain (the non-technical side of) the server are Mac all the way so wouldn't have any of that. ;) Thank you again to those who offered help with my current problem - I'll let you know how it goes. Cheers - Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Customer Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 5:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: OS X witangod dies, way to auto-restart? Witango 5.0 on OS X was unstable due to the 4 year old iODBC that apple shipped with it and problems with system calls that were not thread safe. The majority of crashes were in db actions due to this. Most (not all) threading issues in OS X were fixed by 10.3. Tiger is even more stable and has the latest iodbc driver manager installed which is thread safe. 10.4.2+ is the OS X environment that we recommend you use for Witango 5.5 as it is also the OS X version we build witango on. OS X is becoming more and more stable with each subsequent release. Witango Support ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
