Vista woes lead IT pros to Macs, Linux

IpodNN ^ | November 19th

[HAL9000]

Don't see a lot of Macs running Oracle, SQL and the grandaddy of them all....Exchange, in the enterprise.

Oracle 10g is available.

Exchange Server could be hosted on Macs, but I'd rather see Apple deliver something better than Microsoft and RIM's stuff - and position the iPhone as a better platform than the Blackberry for corporations.

I believe that Apple will eventually spin off a unit for enterprise systems - without the Apple logo on the front panel.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I believe that Apple will eventually spin off a unit for enterprise systems - without the Apple logo on the front panel.

I don't think there's any doubt that Apple has long range plans of that nature. If they don't, Jobs is a bigger fool than his detractors give him credit for.

[MarkL]

I'm not a SQL guy, but my team is responsible for the server hardware, and it seems that nobody, including Microsoft can figure out the memory leak problems we're having on 64bit Win2k3 and 64bit SQL2k5. We've got an HP DL386 with dual Opterons and 32GB of RAM, and the system is constantly running out of RAM. While similar databases are running on 32bit platforms with 12GB of RAM.

ARGH!!!!!

Of course the software guys are saying that obviously 32GB of RAM isn't enough... As if you could cure a memory leak by adding memory!

Mark

[MarkL]

And only an idiot newb would install Vista as an upgrade. Never, never - slick your HD and do a clean install. Trust me on that one.

Given my conversations with numerous M$ techs over the years they will admit (off the record) that NOBODY in their right minds does an upgrade, and it's been that way since MS-DOS v3.2!

Mark

[MarkL]

You must have some serious hardware to not just run XP, but then to run an extra layer for VMWare, and then another layer for Ubuntu. Why don't you cut out all those middle men and run Ubuntu as a standalone?

Huh? I've got a 2 year old HP laptop (somewhere around a 1.8GHz Centrino - the laptop's at the office, so I don't remember), and I'm constantly using VMWare Workstation on it, running both a WinXP AND Win2K guest on it, with a WinXP host. I do that to keep a relatively clean host OS, while I install all my "flaky apps" needed for work on the 2 guests. Of course, I do have 2GB of RAM in the laptop, but when things get slow, I can still mount a DVD ISO and watch a movie with no dropped frames.

Mark

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

We've had a lot of cases where our software has been blamed for memory leaks on platforms as you describe.

In each case, our Engineering team has been able to find that the problem is not related to our software but excessive calls to one process or another. In only one case did we find that one piece of our software was making use of some libraries and not releasing memory afterwards. That was fixed but the memory leak issues with MS software keep a comin'.

[MarkL]

Oops, that should have been DL385 - A very nice box, actually.

But we’ve seen all sorts of problems with Windows 64bit software. They run the 32bit version of Windows just fine, but the memory access to RAM above 4GB is kludgy to say the very least - PAE is the new version of Expanded Memory!

Mark

[TruthWillWin]

Bought a new laptop in June and was warned not to get one with Vista. Bought a Toshiba with Vista anyway. Can’t see what all the fuss is about Vista, I like it. No problems so far.

[CRBDeuce]

good point...don’t know, don’t have that t-shirt yet.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

I keep hearing that but I don’t know where it comes from.

I’m surrounded by computers, some windows my own family’s linuxs, and macs too. I don’t see font issues.

I’ve used many linuxes in the past; mandrake, caldera, redhat, fedora, mepis, sabayon, PClinuxOS, Knoppix, and I’m sure there are others.(granted, not all of these have I used for long durations)

But I don’t get it. Fonts look clean and fine to me on all systems.

[tutstar]

gnip...