Just wanted to reply to this (even though it's wildly off-topic).
I've been working with ODBC Socket Server for about a month now, and I'm incredibly happy with it.
We're tied into a Centura SQLBase backend for our ERP package but wanted to publish some of that data to our webserver. Centura doesn't make enough information available to create a Linux-side client, leaving only JDBC as an option. I'm not familiar with Java and don't want to be.
ODBC Socket Server works great for us and has allowed us to stay with the web server-side languages that we're familiar with (Perl and PHP3).
Beyond the obvious implications of the buy, this could be an interesting way to prove that Linux is superior technology. Interix announced a while ago that it was adding Linux compatibility into their Unix-on-NT suite. So, whip out those benchmarks. Let's see just how well NT does on Linux territory. Is tweaked Unix Apache slower on NTUnix? Tell the world! GIMP/Linux trounce GIMP/NT? Call the Berst-meister! This could prove to be extremely interesting.
Can anyone else picture Gates wringing his hands at the pure joy in seeing the results from this round of testing?
"Even with help from the top two Linux minds, namely kernel inventor Linus Torvalds and top lieutenant Alan Cox, Linux was unable to match the performance of the NT machine under test."
If Mindcraft is being as unhelpful in giving information to these two as they were in replying to Usenet posts for help, you're going to see a steaming pile of FUD right in the middle of that report.
Let's face it, the Mindcraft results are going to say EXACTLY what the Microsoft marketing forces want them to say. If the marketing people say there's a perception that Linux is difficult to get support for, you can damn well bet you're going to see forced substantiation of that claim in their report notes.
This second test, if it continues under the same sort of conditions that Salon notes, will NOT be any better than the previous. In fact, given the level of expertise being "consulted" in the new test, this result could hurt the Linux image much, much more.
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Just wanted to reply to this (even though it's wildly off-topic).
I've been working with ODBC Socket Server for about a month now, and I'm incredibly happy with it.
We're tied into a Centura SQLBase backend for our ERP package but wanted to publish some of that data to our webserver. Centura doesn't make enough information available to create a Linux-side client, leaving only JDBC as an option. I'm not familiar with Java and don't want to be.
ODBC Socket Server works great for us and has allowed us to stay with the web server-side languages that we're familiar with (Perl and PHP3).
Beyond the obvious implications of the buy, this could be an interesting way to prove that Linux is superior technology. Interix announced a while ago that it was adding Linux compatibility into their Unix-on-NT suite. So, whip out those benchmarks. Let's see just how well NT does on Linux territory. Is tweaked Unix Apache slower on NTUnix? Tell the world! GIMP/Linux trounce GIMP/NT? Call the Berst-meister! This could prove to be extremely interesting.
Can anyone else picture Gates wringing his hands at the pure joy in seeing the results from this round of testing?
"Even with help from the top two Linux minds, namely kernel inventor Linus Torvalds and top lieutenant Alan Cox, Linux was unable to match the performance of the NT machine under test."
If Mindcraft is being as unhelpful in giving information to these two as they were in replying to Usenet posts for help, you're going to see a steaming pile of FUD right in the middle of that report.
Let's face it, the Mindcraft results are going to say EXACTLY what the Microsoft marketing forces want them to say. If the marketing people say there's a perception that Linux is difficult to get support for, you can damn well bet you're going to see forced substantiation of that claim in their report notes.
This second test, if it continues under the same sort of conditions that Salon notes, will NOT be any better than the previous. In fact, given the level of expertise being "consulted" in the new test, this result could hurt the Linux image much, much more.