Malcolm Gin

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since October 19, 1999

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November 7, 1999, on Application Servers:
People seem to miss the problem Phil has with NT (that I share). It's not that it's easy to administer. It's actually not easy to administer _well_. It is easy to administer badly or in a mediocre fashion. The problem is then that if you fail to administer it well, it's not suitable for an 'enterprise' application. In other words, you may have to reboot it nightly, or weekly, or more frequently than 3 months to a year, which can be a realistic figure for a moderately well or really well administered *x system. When you look at VAX, you get into figures like years and possibly a decade between instances where the server's operating system needs rebooting. I agree that having to reboot the operating system frequently makes it difficult to run an 'enterprise' application with any degree of professionalism, and I urge others to see if they can figure out the author's stance about reliability, uptime and administrative costs before suggesting web servers, development environments an...