Re: Does anyone have serious databases on NT?

<SNIP>
> I *will* say that I make a significant part of my income assisting
them
> during difficult crash recoveries, or recovery of unfortunate actions
> that some employee has performed because "NT is easier to use" than
Unix.
>
> The employment is good, but I would rather build new things than
constantly
> clean up messes caused by shoddy, bug-laden software from Redmond.
>

So far I haven't seen anyone suggest that they use a mixed-platform, client/server solution. Is ODBC a pipe dream?

My take might be to host the big database on a dedicated Unix platform, then give the users (clients or distributed, smaller databases) their choice of a Unix or NT front end, whichever they're more productive with (and less likely to perform "unfortunate actions"!).

A most hideous management sin is to shove the wrong platform down the user's throats. Making Windows-literate users have to learn Unix is asking for trouble. (On the other hand, the back office types ought to be used to having stuff forced down their throats, and have learned to make do...)

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Share what you know. Learn what you don't. Received on Tue Aug 03 1999 - 12:29:46 CDT