Windows Incompatibilities Frustrate D.C. Schools

capouch writes "The Washington Post reports that school administrators for the DC public school system are having an awful time getting their new administrative software to work properly." From the article: "'In my experience, the combination of an Oracle database, Windows operating system, Unix hardware and an Apache webserver is a bad combination,' Barlow wrote in the memo to Thomas M. Brady, the school system's chief business operations officer. 'In fact, through our research the last few days, we have found an advisory on the Apache website that states, 'Please note that at this time, Windows support is entirely experimental and is recommended only for experienced users.' The Apache Group does not guarantee that the software will work as documented or even at all...Barlow said officials plan to replace Windows with a different operating system."

Comments

Please...

[poor_boi]

If you're going to use Windows, use IIS and SQL Server, and interface with your unix systems through http/web services or some other well established common interface.

This article doesn't cast a shadow on Windows (there's plenty of other ways to do that), it casts a shadow on whoever planned this system.

That's not to say you couldn't get their software working ... it'd just take a ubergeek to get it right :P