This made me think about the teachers I have had through out my life. How some, if not all, taught, preached and educated to their beliefs and schooling - not to what actually may be. History itself is a perverted view of what happened through the eyes of the winners/educated/tyrants.
I am fortunate enough to work with a myrid of individuals from around the world. We often discuss world events to see how each other view the topic at hand. It's amazing how different we view the same events. Maybe someday I'll learn enough french to compare a British history book to a frecn one- that should be a kick!
I have used Communigate Pro with great success but not on your scale. They have a great forum at www.stalker.com, I would search there for how large some of the sites are and ask the question if you don't find a answer. Last time I looked, it worked on Windows, Macs, Solaris and Linux - probably more. There are a number of add-ons to handle groupware, virus protection, etc... I never had to use their support, so I can't tell you about that (but, since I didn't have to use them that should tell you something!)
I was told by freind of a freind that this is what a lot of ISPs use so we gave it a try. We downloaded the fully functional demo, installed, ported users over and started using it in about 30 minutes. Spent another couple hours customizing the web front end (which I'm sure could have been done much faster by anyone with a little graphics talent).
Good luck, don't forget to reply yourself on what you choose.
Bad Engineering? I guess YOU can say this because of all your accomplishments. Do you even know what the vulernabilities are? They are so insignifigent that they will of course be pushed back while other more signifigent issues are addressed. Even if those issues are getting a new piece of functionality out the door. It is a business. Oracle is not a perfect company, but consider the other giants of the industry. Yes, they are trying to dominate the industry. At least they are doing it by making the best DB!
Depends on what is ment by "large" - large as in # of users or large as in functionality. Oracle's HTML_DB is highly scalable for websites that have high traffic but is not highly complex (95% of the websites out there). Java and such for highly complex websites (like Amazon!). HTML_DB is also about to receive a bunch of new functionality in September.
I think Google and now Yahoo are a little different then most business. They are attracting the best talent and therefore, may wish to allow them to program in whatever they want - at least to a point.
Note on Hibernate: We use it in my office and I know a little bit about it. It's fine as long as it is the only application touching the DB frequently. Because it caches the data, frequent updates to the DB from another source will cause high network traffic and extra work for the app server, negating the cache advantage (actually worse). Found out during testing right before go live - eerrr.
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I am fortunate enough to work with a myrid of individuals from around the world. We often discuss world events to see how each other view the topic at hand. It's amazing how different we view the same events. Maybe someday I'll learn enough french to compare a British history book to a frecn one- that should be a kick!
Stalker.com and rad thru alll the possibilities! It runs on almost anything.
I was told by freind of a freind that this is what a lot of ISPs use so we gave it a try. We downloaded the fully functional demo, installed, ported users over and started using it in about 30 minutes. Spent another couple hours customizing the web front end (which I'm sure could have been done much faster by anyone with a little graphics talent).
Good luck, don't forget to reply yourself on what you choose.
Hhhhmmm?
Bad Engineering? I guess YOU can say this because of all your accomplishments. Do you even know what the vulernabilities are? They are so insignifigent that they will of course be pushed back while other more signifigent issues are addressed. Even if those issues are getting a new piece of functionality out the door. It is a business. Oracle is not a perfect company, but consider the other giants of the industry. Yes, they are trying to dominate the industry. At least they are doing it by making the best DB!
Depends on what is ment by "large" - large as in # of users or large as in functionality. Oracle's HTML_DB is highly scalable for websites that have high traffic but is not highly complex (95% of the websites out there). Java and such for highly complex websites (like Amazon!). HTML_DB is also about to receive a bunch of new functionality in September. I think Google and now Yahoo are a little different then most business. They are attracting the best talent and therefore, may wish to allow them to program in whatever they want - at least to a point. Note on Hibernate: We use it in my office and I know a little bit about it. It's fine as long as it is the only application touching the DB frequently. Because it caches the data, frequent updates to the DB from another source will cause high network traffic and extra work for the app server, negating the cache advantage (actually worse). Found out during testing right before go live - eerrr.