Writer Bruce Eckel has been publishing his books as beta for several years now. Even though I could download his books series "Thinking in Java" and "Thinking in C++" for free I still bought the final versions in printed form. I think the final releases of these books really benefitted from the beta-releases.
Hi, These test results are very clear. Also look at the FMStocks application (www.fmstocks.com). This application just blew Oracle/Netscape and all the other away on the Transactions/second benchmark. Micro$oft is doing something right this time. Originally I was more UNIX-LINUX oriented, but for the past five months I've worked with the Windows DNA platform (Windows 2000 Server, MSSQL Server 7.0, Visual Studio 6) and I must say that I am impressed. With very little effort you can create multi-tiered, highly scalable en reliable web applications. The development process is very efficient, because using MS Developer Studio you can debug all the way from the presentation layer (Active Server Pages) into the MSSQL Stored Procedures. Try to do that on a LINUX platform... The bottomside is that you'll have to use M$ software all the way, but fortunately using XML, SOAP and the forthcoming Host Integration server you can communicate with any system you want. I just want to say that many of you should open your eyes and give M$ a chance. Some of their departments do make fine stuff.
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Writer Bruce Eckel has been publishing his books as beta for several years now. Even though I could download his books series "Thinking in Java" and "Thinking in C++" for free I still bought the final versions in printed form. I think the final releases of these books really benefitted from the beta-releases.
Hi, These test results are very clear. Also look at the FMStocks application (www.fmstocks.com). This application just blew Oracle/Netscape and all the other away on the Transactions/second benchmark. Micro$oft is doing something right this time. Originally I was more UNIX-LINUX oriented, but for the past five months I've worked with the Windows DNA platform (Windows 2000 Server, MSSQL Server 7.0, Visual Studio 6) and I must say that I am impressed. With very little effort you can create multi-tiered, highly scalable en reliable web applications. The development process is very efficient, because using MS Developer Studio you can debug all the way from the presentation layer (Active Server Pages) into the MSSQL Stored Procedures. Try to do that on a LINUX platform... The bottomside is that you'll have to use M$ software all the way, but fortunately using XML, SOAP and the forthcoming Host Integration server you can communicate with any system you want. I just want to say that many of you should open your eyes and give M$ a chance. Some of their departments do make fine stuff.