Having also been a longtime reader here, I owe a lot of the success in my career to both the posts that made it to slashdot as well as the comments (parrot'ing that information in meetings and sales calls has always made me look smarter and more in the know). Even today, I can reference my low user id at slashdot and gain immediate street cred with a lot of very technical people. Thanks rob for putting this place together.
I'm all for new technology, but I just tried to implement an application using this in the last 4 weeks (instead of Macromedia's Flex) and with 60 or more fields, the performance just in clearing the form was upwards of 30 seconds or more. This technology has potential, but might be a ways off from truly useful enterprise apps.
I've tried a lot of the "cobbled" together solutions as well as the paid ones, and communigate pro is one of the top ones out there. It easily scales to what you want and offers all of the protocols you mentioned and then some. Yes it costs money, but runs on just about any platform out there and allows clients from just about any platform out there - including groupware abilities.
waterhouse has $12 trades, unlimited check writing against your money market acct, and an atm/visa debit card. overall, this had everything i needed to make it my checking/online stock buying/debit & atm needs only account. i have been very happy w/ them for the past 2 years
I have been a dba for 5 years and I would hate to exaggerate, but I'm not sure you could pay me to use Oracle(ok - I have been paid before but it was kicking and screaming:) For ease of administration, flexibility, raw power, functionality, (this list really goes on), I wouldn't use anything but Informix. I haven't played with Informix on Linux to that scale - but I can tell you that you will regret going on Oracle for any large scale stuff especially if you're not too familiar with it. I've used Informix on 3 tera on solaris and I don't think you can beat it anywhere. Plus 9.2 will be released on Linux and you'll have datablade technology too.
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Having also been a longtime reader here, I owe a lot of the success in my career to both the posts that made it to slashdot as well as the comments (parrot'ing that information in meetings and sales calls has always made me look smarter and more in the know). Even today, I can reference my low user id at slashdot and gain immediate street cred with a lot of very technical people. Thanks rob for putting this place together.
I'm all for new technology, but I just tried to implement an application using this in the last 4 weeks (instead of Macromedia's Flex) and with 60 or more fields, the performance just in clearing the form was upwards of 30 seconds or more. This technology has potential, but might be a ways off from truly useful enterprise apps.
I've tried a lot of the "cobbled" together solutions as well as the paid ones, and communigate pro is one of the top ones out there. It easily scales to what you want and offers all of the protocols you mentioned and then some. Yes it costs money, but runs on just about any platform out there and allows clients from just about any platform out there - including groupware abilities.
check out vncdimension. works without sending the cpu into la la land.
waterhouse has $12 trades, unlimited check writing against your money market acct, and an atm/visa debit card. overall, this had everything i needed to make it my checking/online stock buying/debit & atm needs only account. i have been very happy w/ them for the past 2 years
I have been a dba for 5 years and I would hate to exaggerate, but I'm not sure you could pay me to use Oracle(ok - I have been paid before but it was kicking and screaming :) For ease of administration, flexibility, raw power, functionality, (this list really goes on), I wouldn't use anything but Informix. I haven't played with Informix on Linux to that scale - but I can tell you that you will regret going on Oracle for any large scale stuff especially if you're not too familiar with it. I've used Informix on 3 tera on solaris and I don't think you can beat it anywhere. Plus 9.2 will be released on Linux and you'll have datablade technology too.