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Leah
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As most new machines seem to be coming with VISTA on them, has anyone out there tried WebFOCUS under VISTA. The everchaning world of data processing or should I say Information Technology.


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Håkan
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Leah,

have not tried it, but I'm very interested in the subject as one of my customers is going from W2K to Vista in April on a global basis. What's IB saying about Vista?

Håkan


WebFOCUS DS 8.0.06/08 DS/AS
WebFOCUS RS 8.0.08 (Linux/IBM i)
WebFOCUS Client 8.0.06 (Linux)
 
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Leah
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What's IB saying about Vista

I don't think I've seen anything on Vista from IB. Since that is the way computers are being shipped these days, hope they are testing, of course we may see issues on what version is supported on Vista I'm sure.


Leah
 
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Tony A
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With 15Gb required on your hard drive I think we ought to call it Vasta!
 
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Dan Kenny
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!5Gb to add better security and eye-candy to make your Windows look more like a Mac?


Here's a thought: Skip the upgrade, get a Mac Intel and Parallels VM with XP/SP2 -- then you can HAVE a real Mac for your eye candy and still run Dev Studio and all those other "Windows Only" programs with nary a bump in your performance!

That's my setup, 2G Ram MacBOOK and 720M given to the XP virtual machine. Can even run Red Hat Linux concurrently in 320M Ram, and still have all three OS's at once full-boar. This is on a Dual-Core setup, not even on the dual-core 2.


Who needs Vista Smiler


Dan Kenny
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Prod: WF 7.1.6 Linux Test: WF 7.6.0 Linux
 
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Francis Mariani
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Dan,

Totally agree with you. But shouldn't you be able to install the UNIX version of WebFOCUS, and do away with Parallels VM and Windows altogether?


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
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Dan Kenny
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Francis,

We do have the Unix version of WebFOCUS (Linux). IBI has done a great job making their server cross-platform. However, I'm still waiting for Dev Studio to be platform-independent. As it stands, we're stuck in the Windows environment if we want to use Dev Studio for development.

Conceivably, we could go to MRE Applet exclusively for development on the MRE standard reports tree, but their Java applet doesn't work in Mac OSX Java. We could go to Dashboard, but a developer can't edit standard reports (argh). We really are, unfortunately, locked into Windows for development.

At least until IBI decides to port more Dev Studio functionality to Ajax ala Power Painter. Or decides to port a Qt (Linux) or Cocoa (OSX) inteface for Dev Studio. Now wouldn't that be nice Smiler

Regards,

-- Dan

Dan Kenny
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Prod: WF 7.1.6 Linux -- Test: WF 7.6.0 Linux
 
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Francis Mariani
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Dan, thanks for the details.

I was only thinking of WF development for myself, not from an enterprise perspective.

Cheers.


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
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<JHeath>
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IBI has successfully tested WebFOCUS on the beta versions of Vista, and now testing with the production version. Look for a statement for Vista support on our Support site soon.

Joan Heath
Product Implementation Team
WebFOCUS Product Group
 
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sakeenan
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I asked IBI at Summit 2005 if they had any plans to come out with a Mac version of Dev Studio and they did not at the time, but as Apple gains more market share, maybe that will change. Smiler

In July to prepare for a business trip, I tested Dev Studio running under Parallels on my laptop, a 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo MacBook Pro running 1GB and had problems, so I installed another GB and then Dev Studio ran great! Since my work machine is now 3 years old, I've decided it time to upgrade so yesterday I purchased a 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo 24" iMac with 2 GB, which will replace two Windows machines, a 20 inch Apple monitor and a KVM switch, but I won't be installing Vista until the DOD approves it and installs it on their machines. Smiler


Sue

 
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