because it fits my needs more than the other ones.
As I'm in the business for 25 years now as programmer and as admin at a German university for the past 10 years, I've seen quite some machinery and operating systems.
Privately I'm maintaining a small LAN of four OS/2 and one mandrake station.
At work we are running a heterogenous network comprising one IRIX station and several OS/2 and linux servers while the majority of users sticks to NT4 clients for the known reasons. A 25% minority nevertheless prefers Warp4 clients.
The OS/2 flavours in use are Warp4, Warp Server Advanced, and eComStation; the languages are German, English, and Greek.
You might have noticed that I don't mention any MS in my private LAN. The reason for this is ODIN: The only application I ever missed on OS/2 was RealPlayer - now, with a little help from ODIN, using a DSL line, me and my wife get all our favourite radio and TV internet stations within OS/2.
One word on the notorious mentioning of allegedly missing applications: There are roughly 3 GB of OS/2 SW archived on one of my servers, most of which I didn't even have looked into.
Finally, there's a fine old non-OS/2 TI-59 still in use - unfortunately, I didn't yet manage to connect it to the LAN:-)
The thing you're referring to is the "single input queue" which indeed sometimes has been troublesome as it could be blocked by an ill behaving application.
In my experience (6 years intense use in several heterogeneous LANs) the main "bad boy" has been Netscape.
Fortunately, the actual Netscape version is a lot better; this year I didn't experience any SIQ blocking at all on any of my 10 OS/2 and eCS machines.
For other applications than Netscape there is a very useful utility named "watchcat" which helps effectively in dissolving SIQ blocking.
I don't know what your term "professionally" means. If it is supposed to be the MS way then I'm glad about SerenitySystem's unprofessionality. Did you ever have a look into http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eComStation ?
Now I'm one of those early eCS users who prepaid. It is worth every single of the $140 I paid for it.
Although, there was indeed one "bug" in preview #2 - the ICMP protocol did not work until I copied three missing files manually.
But imagine an MS product beta with one "bug" only...
OK, you can't:-)
One of the many benefits I already profited from is JFS and LVM. When I added another HDD into the machine there was no need to use any further drive letters because I simply "extended" the existing partitions onto the new HDD. Without any moving or copying around of the existing files.
The question of the GA release date is irrelevant for me. The eCS Preview2 is already working stable and useable.
Me:-)
For my machines at work, that is, which still are running Warp4.
Cause privately I'm already using eCS. To be precise, it's running only on one of my five private PCs; three are still equipped with Warp4 and Warp Server and the fifth one is running Linux. (I want to remain in touch with what the rest of the world is doing:-)
Well, and I did get eCS for $140. (To put it with Gorbatchew: Who arrives late, will be punished by life:-)
Non, je ne regrette rien:-)
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because it fits my needs more than the other ones.
As I'm in the business for 25 years now as programmer and as admin at a German university for the past 10 years, I've seen quite some machinery and operating systems.
Privately I'm maintaining a small LAN of four OS/2 and one mandrake station.
At work we are running a heterogenous network comprising one IRIX station and several OS/2 and linux servers while the majority of users sticks to NT4 clients for the known reasons. A 25% minority nevertheless prefers Warp4 clients.
The OS/2 flavours in use are Warp4, Warp Server Advanced, and eComStation; the languages are German, English, and Greek.
You might have noticed that I don't mention any MS in my private LAN. The reason for this is ODIN: The only application I ever missed on OS/2 was RealPlayer - now, with a little help from ODIN, using a DSL line, me and my wife get all our favourite radio and TV internet stations within OS/2.
One word on the notorious mentioning of allegedly missing applications: There are roughly 3 GB of OS/2 SW archived on one of my servers, most of which I didn't even have looked into.
Finally, there's a fine old non-OS/2 TI-59 still in use - unfortunately, I didn't yet manage to connect it to the LAN:-)
The thing you're referring to is the "single input queue" which indeed sometimes has been troublesome as it could be blocked by an ill behaving application.
In my experience (6 years intense use in several heterogeneous LANs) the main "bad boy" has been Netscape.
Fortunately, the actual Netscape version is a lot better; this year I didn't experience any SIQ blocking at all on any of my 10 OS/2 and eCS machines.
For other applications than Netscape there is a very useful utility named "watchcat" which helps effectively in dissolving SIQ blocking.
I don't know what your term "professionally" means. If it is supposed to be the MS way then I'm glad about SerenitySystem's unprofessionality. Did you ever have a look into http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eComStation ?
Now I'm one of those early eCS users who prepaid. It is worth every single of the $140 I paid for it.
Although, there was indeed one "bug" in preview #2 - the ICMP protocol did not work until I copied three missing files manually.
But imagine an MS product beta with one "bug" only...
OK, you can't:-)
One of the many benefits I already profited from is JFS and LVM. When I added another HDD into the machine there was no need to use any further drive letters because I simply "extended" the existing partitions onto the new HDD. Without any moving or copying around of the existing files.
The question of the GA release date is irrelevant for me. The eCS Preview2 is already working stable and useable.
Me:-)
For my machines at work, that is, which still are running Warp4.
Cause privately I'm already using eCS. To be precise, it's running only on one of my five private PCs; three are still equipped with Warp4 and Warp Server and the fifth one is running Linux. (I want to remain in touch with what the rest of the world is doing:-)
Well, and I did get eCS for $140. (To put it with Gorbatchew: Who arrives late, will be punished by life:-)
Non, je ne regrette rien:-)