Matt You make it sound like I can sell my Mac stuff, buy equivalent wintel & come out $ ahead??
Should I expect to get win2K or win XP included in the price of a laptop? Do you find MySQL deficiencies (transaction, stored procedures, etc), force recoding or dumbing-down of your db interface? What's the 3rd party enterprise manager? How much? Wouldn't PostgreSQL be closer to a (normal) deployment db? Wouldn't MDSE allow you develop code closer to that which will (usually) be deployed? I don't see Oracle as a standard development db, other than for testing before final deployment. Since I won't have baggage, I probably can avoid back versions of CF and IDE tools (Studio). All my clients are deployed on CF 5. I think that JEdit will be my choice for an editor. Lots of good info thanks Dick On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 12:42 PM, Matt Robertson wrote: > I personally have stuck with Win2k and have been very pleased. I run > three dev boxes. Two desktops and one laptop. One desktop runs > Apache and the others are IIS. > > I primarily develop in mySQL/win. Its dirt-simple to use, free, > resource-light, has a great enterprise mgr (3rd party) and is what I > use in production. I recode as needed (usually only db create and > alter templates) for Oracle, MS SQL and Access. > > One dev box with 1gb of RAM has mySQL, MSDE (SQL Server) and Oracle 9i > running, all at the same time, w/about 400 mb ram unused at bootup. > The key to this is boatloads of RAM. Oracle is the big hog in this > regard. > > All machines also run cf 4.5 and cfmx (port 8500) concurrently. I use > Studio 4.5. I'll bet you can still get a copy cheap on ebay. > > My laptop runs mySQL and MSDE only. Thats all I need for road warrior > stuff. > > My desktops are - get this - P II 400's maybe 2 yrs old, built to > spec. With a lot of ram and disk space thats fine for dev work, > although MX's sloth is changing that opinion. The laptop is one of > those teeny 3lb, 1'' thick Sonys with a 12'' scrn. When I travel I > like it light. Cost me $1100 on a closeout at CDW last November. > > > --------------------------------------- > Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MSB Designs, Inc., www.mysecretbase.com > --------------------------------------- > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
