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Searching for the Oldest Running Application

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday May 2, 2003 @08:53AM from the mine-is-older-than-yours dept.

A columnist from InternetWeek has completed a search for the oldest running commercial software application. His results are interesting (note that he's mostly skipping over mainframe applications, just looking at PC-based apps).

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non-sequitur isn't an application by captainfugacity · 2003-05-02 09:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Jeez, at least come up with a simpsons quote if you're going offtopic. "Yada-yada, square root of a million..." See how easy it is?
Can you say "Photoshop" ? by cyranoVR · 2003-05-02 09:48 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Lest you think Novell is getting all the accolades, one reader sent me screenshots to prove that his Windows NT v4 server is still up and running of 1,079 days with nary a reboot, and being used to serve up IP addresses for about 3,500 client workstations.

"The server outlived the core switch it was originally plugged into, the rack it was originally mounted in, and the KVM it was originally using. If all goes as planned, it will be retired in November without having any downtime and replaced with a Windows 2000 machine."

Does anybody actually believe this one? Buddy, whatever your configuration was, please post it on the net so the rest of us can see how you accomplished the impossible.

At my previous employer, they had to reboot the NT file server at least once daily...
Re:It's got to be by tenman · 2003-05-02 10:59 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Now they have Java versions of this file...