[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Richard Maher]

"John Wallace" <johnwallace4 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:4bafbff2-37a1-4a3c-a1d5-3a035b1ddc96 at cf4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com...
On Aug 24, 2:38 pm, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <gmtZr.3213$_h6.... at fx03.am4>, ChrisQ <m... at devnull.com> 
> writes:
>
> > I'm not sure that logic would make so much sense now...
>
> My first UNIX did not have shareable libraries. So every program
> that called printf has a copy of it, ...
>
> MS-DOS was like that, too. Hello World in Fortran was huge on disk.
>
> But UNIX and Windows caught up with VMS on that one a long time ago.
> You need record support for several HLL, but there only needs to be
> one copy of the code and read-only data.
>
> What you don't get that way is the code you need to pass data files
> between record oriented HLL and byte stream oriented HLL.


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
"[Windows] there only needs to be one copy of the code and read-only
data."

(sorry if quoting out of context)


Does the term "DLL Hell" mean anything to readers?

Or the alleged "fix" for DLL Hell, "side by side" configurations (aka
WinSxS, a term which readers can search for)?
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

I thought the GAC was their fix for DLL Hell?

Then again the experts where I am all ship/install there own DLL 
copies/locations for every new web-site. (Including Oracle etc!) Otherwise 
it's just "too hard" and "you don't know what version you're getting".

But IMHO the real problem here (will *nix as well as Windows) is no one 
seems to have the concept of a standard server build :-( They all seem to 
want to start with a blank disk and have the System Manager du jour run 
around Google/nuGet installing whatever he/she thinks is needed in any order 
and any version with some sort of standard tthresshold of omissions.

MS "Clusters" are the absolute best with no common system disk (there is a 
quorum disk) and multiple copies of everything often built by different 
people.

Cheers Richard Maher