Re: July 1 MIS Stock Picking Contest


"shortT" <dev.gnull@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:a628a5ec-3f93-4010-8060-8f4410e5f2d3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Good God Lubow do not tell this to the poor guy it is a sure way to
scare him out of Linux.
My days of compiling packages or the kernel are gone except on the odd
low memory embedded system.

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We're building a turnkey transaction processing system that involves our building a server engine with a Tyan S3992 mobo and dual 4-core AMD Barcelonas (consumes MUCH less power than comparable Xeons), 4TB SATAs powered by a new, factory sealed Adaptec 2420SA I just picked up for a song on eBay (within a year it will be obsolete as PCI-E overtakes PCI-X, but that's ok). I'll add a battery to the Adaptec to enable better utilization of the onboard memory (without a battery b/u it is dangerous to use the onboard memory in a RAID 50 configuration). The battery costs more than the card.

The s/w, of course, is Gentoo running Postgres. The customer is running Verizon FIOS, so we took the easy way out by developing with Glade/X. Under FIOS a remote user would never know it's an X app speed-wise. We MAY come back later with v.2 that will be web based using Ruby-on-RAILS if we can resolve the objections I have concerning the "RAILS way," viz. the integration of database admin with the app. I don't like it because I want to keep all tiers separate and independent.

I dunno... to me ruby-on-RAILS is more suited for advertising and information conveyance, not for transaction processing.

Currently, Gtk has a Windows version that will allow us to port the s/w to the dark side (aka Windows) and avoid the need for X servers. If the Windows version of Gtk works to my satisfaction, we just might forget about porting to a web based system.

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