Re: NT server, pro/con
Date: 22 Feb 1995 04:12:15 GMT
Message-ID: <3iediv$qvq_at_nntp.interaccess.com>
Stephen H Fick (shf_at_world.std.com) wrote:
: While working on an assignment to choose a database product,
: I've just been asked to look into using an NT server
: rather than a Sun Solaris 2.x server.
Been running Universe on NT. It's a true implementation in the Windows environment, not just running the DOS version of Pick on the DOS shell.
Installing both NT and Universe for NT took 40 minutes combined. NT is fairly easy to install, there's just a lot of questions to answer, but it walks you through all of them nicely. Every driver for hardware and networking you can think of comes with the thing. It automatically recognizes just about anything you might have plugged into your hardware at the time. I had bought a copy of Visual Basic for my WIn 3.1, but installed it on NT instead, and it runs fine. There are certain Windows executables that don't run correctly, but so far I'd say it's something like 80 percent do.
Universe on NT comes with an API for Visual Basic, so I've been coding front ends with it, and those all work great. The performance monitors are pretty nice, naturally with a graphic aspect to them, and even though the recommendations are for 32 MB, I installed it originally on a machine with only 18 MB, and it ran great.
The NT Universe, BTW, comes with great on-line hypertext help, for the editor, TCL commands, BASIC, and API. It truly is a Windows version of the database, and it takes up a lot less room on NT than on Unix.
I'd still like to see it run a couple of hundred users, but that's what it's meant to do. It's Microsoft, they're taking over the world anyway, so we'll see whether we want to or not.
jeff g. Received on Wed Feb 22 1995 - 05:12:15 CET