web services gives the ability for anything to call it, 'client' programs, or web page generators. the idea is to allow a single backend that multiple front ends can utilize.
so no, i think client/ server is dead. i think it is actually now becoming client/web service.
the multiple user GUI Aqua interface rumor has been running around for a while. most recently Mac OS Rumors has been reporting that it is something Apple is working on. MOSR recommends those who want to be able to use Aqua as if it were X-windows should contact Apple and make the request.
but to answer your question, there is NO way to do what you want short of taking over the desktop machine's screen. (or buying a new faster *book...)
SQL Server likes CPUs alright, but what it really really really really wants, is fast access to disk, and lots and lots of memory. (so it can cache things all over da place)
and like everyone else has been saying, it really depends on what you're trying to do. ask your DBAs or ask your Microsoft Consulting Services DBA. and then ask your hardware vendor. and then ask your finance guy how much you can really spend. cuz if i'm not mistaken, budgets are tight nowadays.
based on previous comments i'm guessing its some sort of media player.
why should i care about it versus all the other ones out there?
and how do posts like this get through without describing what it is they're selling? i mean, we all know that the minute we post a URL its gonna get slashdotted, so a concise summary of the article would be nice.
IBM Tivoli encompasses a suite of systems management products that work much like SMS. since you dont give us much to go on in terms of what you want to do, or how much you want to pay, tivoli should cover all the bases. otherwise have you checked sourceforge? or even google?
Since it sounds like you already are receiving the documents electronically, you need a content management system. There are plenty out there, and it depends on the types of things you want to do. there's Stellent which is primarily a content management system for documents, but i dont know what sorts of Linux support they have. Also there's Interwoven which is a little more based on web deployment content management.
another poster has mentioned Lotus, but there is a product from IBM called IBM Content Manager that runs on DB2 and WebSphere (which both run on Linux) and gives you really powerful storage and delivery of your stored content.
Of course, you could always check SourceForge which shows at least a dozen projects with "Content Management" in their descriptions...
actually... in at least the dell poweredge servers, there is a BIOS setting called something like "x86 compatability" or somesuch which takes a nice dual Pentium II (thats what we had in these a few years ago) and makes it run at a nice slow 60 MHz or so... we had a bitch of a time remotely trying to figure out why simple tasks were pegging the machine. luckily we had a competant service tech who got the call, and he was able to walk through the bios settings with us over the phone.
somewhere along the way, java became this huge weird pain to deal with (ejb)... but i do like the DAO model. it seems to be flexible with regards to changing out data providers etc... i'm leaning toward running my stuff as javabeans called via servlet/jsps/struts... all under tomcat 4.x - i took a look at jboss and it didnt seem too well documented and all of a sudden i had like 6 additional ports listening, so i decided more research on it was necessary...
but i'm gonna have to cringe at your reply cuz you said "orthogonal"
the big question begging moving from a simple jsp/servlet engine like Tomcat/Jetty/Resin to a full blown J2EE app server like WebSphere/BEA/JBoss is Do you want to run EJBs? i'm not an expert on EJBs by any means, and i'm trying to ask this same question of my own projects, but what i keep hearing is this: EJBs allow me to run much more scalable than servlet/javabeans.
i dont know what your prospective usage numbers are, but if they are large scale (aka site on the internet that loads of people will hit hard) then you want to use an EJB architecture because you will be able to scale up with lots of big servers. given that you are working on PCs, my guess is that this is not the case.
Also, i keep hearing that utilizing an EJB App Server will bring with it database connection architectures like Container Managed Persistance etc. BUT... there are some great examples of utilizing other data access patterns like Data Access Objects (see the jpetstore example)
i think it comes down to proper application architecture. make sure your applications have good design, and keep in mind scalability (especially with the data access bottleneck) and you should be ok.
oh yeah... in favor of tomcat... Tomcat is used by IBM WebSphere to run all the jsp and servlets in webSphere, which in turn can then utilize the EJBs...
Being a typical paranoid Slashdotter sheesh... you make it sound like slashdot readers are as bad as the elderly who sit reading weekly world news and national enquierer and believing all of it...
one of the benefits to an IBM RS6000 (not that AIX is a huge benefit IMHO) is that IBM is now sharing all of its low level subsystem code from the Mainframe (os/390 systems) with the other platforms. so things like the way the ibm mainframes allow for systems to be partitioned into multiple machines are now available to the pSeries group. where Sun partitions across physical CPUs, IBM can now partition w/o regard for the physical CPU. and you can adjust the CPU amount for various machines on the fly...
ok first this disclaimer. -i hate microsoft. i'm forced to work with them at work, and for me the mac is the one true way to have an OS work. - i love opensource. i push it whenever i can at work. and i'm in the position to do that. - to me, microsoft = software mediocrity. and they've made bad software acceptable.
that being said, i use IE on the mac. on osX. i also fire up opera and mozilla at points, but i primarily use IE. why? well, its the features. i LOVE some of the things that mac IE has. things that arent even in Win-IE. things that arent in Mozilla. or Opera, or OmniWeb. or iCab.
- the autocomplete in the URL bar also completes based on title. if i have a bookmark, or a recent history webpage that had a title of "booyah" and was at "foobar.com" i could type in booyah or foobar and it would pop me to the right web page. thats convienience and quite the mac-like intuition i love. - the scrapbook - totally cool. yeah, theres similar in moz now. - page holder. i like it, but dont use it all that much. again, also avail in moz - aquafied text. ok, IE5.2 finally uses the 10.1.5 updates carbon -> aqua hook. it looks great! for a few weeks i was running Silk, but to tell you the truth, i've tossed silk away now. IE5.2 builtin does it MUCH BETTER than silk did. - it feels more mac like. less so than omniweb or icab, but more so than opera, or mozilla. it has the right feel for mac. - IE 5.x xml rendering. i use xml a bunch at work, and the builtin xml rendering is nice. why the heck cant someone incorporate this into moz?!?!?
i HATE how ie spins around for a while on silly javascript. that pisses me off. and hwo about a setting where popups / popunders are disabled?
that off my chest, i hope that soon the aqua mozilla adds these things i like. or if i could get tabs in IE. either way.
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and in only 15 years we'll be seeing one power some sort of vehicle on Junkyard Wars / Scrapheap Challenge...
"Learning a New OS... and Fast!?"
shouldnt that be Learning an Old OS... ?
Windows 3.11 ?
i hope to god those goverment bureaucrats remember to specify the right version of windows...
if we want to analyse how alcohol impairs our thinking, how do we get these things drunk?
filmmakers have been using potato buds for decades to fake snow scenes...
i know that in Home Alone for some of the winter scenes they used a combination of real ice-made snow and potato buds to create snow in 50F weather...
you could call it :
X forward...
an Ask Slashdot?
or better yet... an entry on F*ckedCompany.com ?
...or at least one of the points of web services?
web services gives the ability for anything to call it, 'client' programs, or web page generators. the idea is to allow a single backend that multiple front ends can utilize.
so no, i think client/ server is dead. i think it is actually now becoming client/web service.
the multiple user GUI Aqua interface rumor has been running around for a while. most recently Mac OS Rumors has been reporting that it is something Apple is working on. MOSR recommends those who want to be able to use Aqua as if it were X-windows should contact Apple and make the request.
but to answer your question, there is NO way to do what you want short of taking over the desktop machine's screen. (or buying a new faster *book...)
SQL Server likes CPUs alright, but what it really really really really wants, is fast access to disk, and lots and lots of memory. (so it can cache things all over da place)
and like everyone else has been saying, it really depends on what you're trying to do. ask your DBAs or ask your Microsoft Consulting Services DBA. and then ask your hardware vendor. and then ask your finance guy how much you can really spend. cuz if i'm not mistaken, budgets are tight nowadays.
their website is frelled.
based on previous comments i'm guessing its some sort of media player.
why should i care about it versus all the other ones out there?
and how do posts like this get through without describing what it is they're selling? i mean, we all know that the minute we post a URL its gonna get slashdotted, so a concise summary of the article would be nice.
i mean, they got their mod points for getting a post posted right? even if it is one more silly ask slashdot question.
IBM Tivoli encompasses a suite of systems management products that work much like SMS.
since you dont give us much to go on in terms of what you want to do, or how much you want to pay, tivoli should cover all the bases. otherwise have you checked sourceforge? or even google?
Since it sounds like you already are receiving the documents electronically, you need a content management system. There are plenty out there, and it depends on the types of things you want to do. there's Stellent which is primarily a content management system for documents, but i dont know what sorts of Linux support they have. Also there's Interwoven which is a little more based on web deployment content management.
another poster has mentioned Lotus, but there is a product from IBM called IBM Content Manager that runs on DB2 and WebSphere (which both run on Linux) and gives you really powerful storage and delivery of your stored content.
Of course, you could always check SourceForge which shows at least a dozen projects with "Content Management" in their descriptions...
actually...
in at least the dell poweredge servers, there is a BIOS setting called something like "x86 compatability" or somesuch which takes a nice dual Pentium II (thats what we had in these a few years ago) and makes it run at a nice slow 60 MHz or so... we had a bitch of a time remotely trying to figure out why simple tasks were pegging the machine. luckily we had a competant service tech who got the call, and he was able to walk through the bios settings with us over the phone.
maybe china is now blocking taco's ability to read /.
i agree!!!
somewhere along the way, java became this huge weird pain to deal with (ejb)... but i do like the DAO model. it seems to be flexible with regards to changing out data providers etc...
i'm leaning toward running my stuff as javabeans called via servlet/jsps/struts... all under tomcat 4.x - i took a look at jboss and it didnt seem too well documented and all of a sudden i had like 6 additional ports listening, so i decided more research on it was necessary...
but i'm gonna have to cringe at your reply cuz you said "orthogonal"
the big question begging moving from a simple jsp/servlet engine like Tomcat/Jetty/Resin to a full blown J2EE app server like WebSphere/BEA/JBoss is Do you want to run EJBs?
... Tomcat is used by IBM WebSphere to run all the jsp and servlets in webSphere, which in turn can then utilize the EJBs...
i'm not an expert on EJBs by any means, and i'm trying to ask this same question of my own projects, but what i keep hearing is this: EJBs allow me to run much more scalable than servlet/javabeans.
i dont know what your prospective usage numbers are, but if they are large scale (aka site on the internet that loads of people will hit hard) then you want to use an EJB architecture because you will be able to scale up with lots of big servers. given that you are working on PCs, my guess is that this is not the case.
Also, i keep hearing that utilizing an EJB App Server will bring with it database connection architectures like Container Managed Persistance etc. BUT... there are some great examples of utilizing other data access patterns like Data Access Objects (see the jpetstore example)
i think it comes down to proper application architecture. make sure your applications have good design, and keep in mind scalability (especially with the data access bottleneck) and you should be ok.
oh yeah... in favor of tomcat
and some are even free!
www.chank.com
www.fontalicious.com
Being a typical paranoid Slashdotter
sheesh... you make it sound like slashdot readers are as bad as the elderly who sit reading weekly world news and national enquierer and believing all of it...
one of the benefits to an IBM RS6000 (not that AIX is a huge benefit IMHO) is that IBM is now sharing all of its low level subsystem code from the Mainframe (os/390 systems) with the other platforms. so things like the way the ibm mainframes allow for systems to be partitioned into multiple machines are now available to the pSeries group.
where Sun partitions across physical CPUs, IBM can now partition w/o regard for the physical CPU. and you can adjust the CPU amount for various machines on the fly...
balls is apparently made with guarana. i thought i read somewhere that guarana is a natural aphrodesiac. that and daimana.
is that why its called "balls" ?!?
ok first this disclaimer.
-i hate microsoft. i'm forced to work with them at work, and for me the mac is the one true way to have an OS work.
- i love opensource. i push it whenever i can at work. and i'm in the position to do that.
- to me, microsoft = software mediocrity. and they've made bad software acceptable.
that being said, i use IE on the mac. on osX. i also fire up opera and mozilla at points, but i primarily use IE.
why? well, its the features. i LOVE some of the things that mac IE has. things that arent even in Win-IE. things that arent in Mozilla. or Opera, or OmniWeb. or iCab.
- the autocomplete in the URL bar also completes based on title. if i have a bookmark, or a recent history webpage that had a title of "booyah" and was at "foobar.com" i could type in booyah or foobar and it would pop me to the right web page. thats convienience and quite the mac-like intuition i love.
- the scrapbook - totally cool. yeah, theres similar in moz now.
- page holder. i like it, but dont use it all that much. again, also avail in moz
- aquafied text. ok, IE5.2 finally uses the 10.1.5 updates carbon -> aqua hook. it looks great! for a few weeks i was running Silk, but to tell you the truth, i've tossed silk away now. IE5.2 builtin does it MUCH BETTER than silk did.
- it feels more mac like. less so than omniweb or icab, but more so than opera, or mozilla. it has the right feel for mac.
- IE 5.x xml rendering. i use xml a bunch at work, and the builtin xml rendering is nice. why the heck cant someone incorporate this into moz?!?!?
i HATE how ie spins around for a while on silly javascript. that pisses me off. and hwo about a setting where popups / popunders are disabled?
that off my chest, i hope that soon the aqua mozilla adds these things i like. or if i could get tabs in IE. either way.
and / or home depot and wal mart.
sometimes target, but usually they have too many nice things, so thats where i buy my gifts for friends.
cuz it will make it easier for them to spy on the net traffic...