[migrated to new list] --On 08/29/00 14:15:19 -0800 jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is what I don't understand. All this trauma is 99.994% avoidable > with a switch to nearly anything unix. I don't like to see e-gold > getting bad PR (I'm a sap), but you can bank on these episodes just > getting worse. > > Everyone seems to agree that unix is better in almost every single way > then micro$lop, so you must have a great reason why you don't change the > system? The only ones I can think of are: While I agree that this is not good PR for e-gold, switching all of e-gold to a different system is not that easy. All scripts have to be rewritten (and I've seen at the EFCE conference that there is a lot more than you can see trough the public interface). And on top of that, especially for a financial system like e-gold, you have to be absolutely sure the scripts are correct (and that means a *long* test cycle). This whole process is more likely to take several months than several days or weeks as you suggest. Even though I prefer Unix myself, I've seen that Windows NT can perfectly well handle lots of database transactions. My guess would be that the hardware is not able to keep up (too slow) or that the scripts are badly written and/or the database not configured too well. In all of those situations would switching to Unix not really help. But I could be wrong of course. Edwin --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
