Me too. I have used the Lap Desk for years. The
Scooter
is also nice if you want a stand with legs.
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Me too.
I used to run several large ecommerce sites and for
the majority of small to medium shops I would
recommend Yahoo Stores over many self-hosting approaches. Most small shops fit nicely
into the catalog based approach that Yahoo uses.
If nothing else, the economics
of paying a cut to a hosting services outway
the cost of building and hosting it yourself.
If you still want to do it yourself, the Intershop
product used to be fairly good. You may need to
hook up your inventory system in any case.
There are
several open source projects, but I don't know enought to comment on them.
I don't have a great reason, but basically
it just added another level of complexity
that we didn't want to deal with at the time.
The YP/NIS stuff by itself was easy, Windows
by itself was easy so we just stopped there.
In addition we weren't using Samba at the time
and inertia just kept it that way.
(We used an NFS client on the few Windows machines
that needed Unix file sharing. There was a complex, but good, reason for using the NFS client.)
What I did at my last place was have two different
worlds, Unix and Windows. We bit the bullet and
just dealt with it.
For Unix (Solaris), we used NIS, and not NIS+. Why?
because we trusted folks inside the firewal and NIS
is nice and easy. For Windows, we used the standard
Windows stuff.
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Communigate Pro works for me!
As mentioned on LtU, Hoare's Turing lecture is quite a good engineering paper.
Me too. I have used the Lap Desk for years. The Scooter is also nice if you want a stand with legs.
I used to run several large ecommerce sites and for the majority of small to medium shops I would recommend Yahoo Stores over many self-hosting approaches. Most small shops fit nicely into the catalog based approach that Yahoo uses. If nothing else, the economics of paying a cut to a hosting services outway the cost of building and hosting it yourself.
If you still want to do it yourself, the Intershop product used to be fairly good. You may need to hook up your inventory system in any case. There are several open source projects, but I don't know enought to comment on them.
The YP/NIS stuff by itself was easy, Windows by itself was easy so we just stopped there. In addition we weren't using Samba at the time and inertia just kept it that way. (We used an NFS client on the few Windows machines that needed Unix file sharing. There was a complex, but good, reason for using the NFS client.)
For Unix (Solaris), we used NIS, and not NIS+. Why? because we trusted folks inside the firewal and NIS is nice and easy. For Windows, we used the standard Windows stuff.
This zdnet article reads like a press release from HP on a standard beowulf setup.