Axiant Users

[Mackin John]

I have been using Axiant for 3 years now, with a number of successful
implementations.  Axiant used to crash a lot during development but this was
much improved with Axiant 3.  One word of advice though - don't try running
the development environment on Windows 9x it always seemed to produce a lot
more crashes than NT - I now recommend a minimum spec of NT Workstation with
128Mb RAM, and this seems to provide a fairly stable development
environment.

As for deployment environments, I have only used Thin Client deployments.  I
have worked on implementations using Win 9x, NT 4, Win 2000 and XP clients
with NT, Win 2000, HP/UX and DG/UX servers.  All implementations use an
Oracle database either on the application server, or on a third tier
database server (NT, Win2000, HP/UX, DG/UX or VMS), Oracle versions vary
from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.

I had some experiences with Powerhouse and Sybase a few years ago - it was
more painful than upgrading our 5000 program system to axiant.

A few tips that can help with axiant stability:-
1) Don't save your work in workspaces - always commit it to the repository
2) If your repository is on a network disk, make sure the network is
reliable - network failures often caused axiant to hang
3) Commit and completely close then re-open the developers workbench
regularly this frees resources and makes things faster and more stable.
4) If migrating existing programs, always use a new workspace, migrate,
commit and then close axiant immediately.
5) Watch out for remote timeouts - if you try to remote build a program on
Unix after the timeout you'll lose your work.  Use Remote Disconnect if you
are logged in and not going to be building programs regularly.

John Mackin
jmackin@azurgroup.co.uk

	> -----Original Message-----
	> From:	Steve Franklin [SMTP:steve_franklin@yahoo.com]
	> Sent:	20 December 2001 16:14
	> To:	powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
	> Subject:	Axiant users
	> 
	> I would love to hear from anyone using Axiant.  During
development, Axiant
	> crashes on a regular basis.  I wonder if anyone has succeeded in
	> implementing a production Axiant application.  If you have
succeeded I
	> would
	> love to know what deployment platform and database you used.  I am
trying
	> to
	> use Windows 2000 with Sybase.
	> 
	> Steve Franklin
	> Stw Inc.
	> Email: steve_franklin@yahoo.com



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