[thesite] blockfactor revisted
Daniel J. Cody
djc at starkmedia.com
Fri Oct 26 01:32:39 CDT 2001
.jeff wrote:
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>>seeing that MM(allaire) wrote the software that
>>communicates between CF and the DB server(more
>>speficially, the DB driver), i'd say they're very
>>much in control of that issue.
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> that's very well a possibility.
welllll, unless someone else wrote the code that runs CF, it isn't a
possibility :)
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>>they simply wrote some lame ass function that can only
>>handle a 32K buffer( a longint in C) at a time between
>>their app and the driver.
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> that would be quite lame.
aye.
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>>lets not blame problems of performance on us though.
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> where did i say i was blaming them on us. i'm just trying to explore the
> issues to try to find some explanations to the things we're seeing. that's
> all.
exactly. we can code our CMS perfectly. the fact is, the performance
issues aren't our fault. they're MM's fault(4 pages/sec? oy.)
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>>unfortunatly for MM, more people than me are thinking
>>this way lately, hence the popularity of languages like
>>PHP and JSP.
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> or perhaps because alot of people can't see past the price tag and have zero
> ability to compare the costs long term?
what are the long term costs jeff? i see MM charging us(as an example)
*FOUR THOUSAND* dollars just to hook up to an Oracle native driver.
there is no price tag with php or jsp btw. long term? i get native
oracle connectivity free.
.djc.
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