Re: IDE/Rational Apex experiences

[nospam@somewhere.ia.us (Robert S. White)]

In article <6429gb$5qh@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com>, bklungle@ix.netcom.com 
says...
>
>At a certain large AeroSpace company, use of Rational Apex was mandated by
>management. There are 27 programmers trying to develop a very large ground
>based processing system using C and C++. When 4 users log onto the Rational
>Apex system, the response time on the network increases to around 20
>minutes. 

  20 minutes for what?  What are you running Apex on?  How about a rule
of thumb to have 64 MB per user and no more than 6 users on a Sun SPARC
Ultra.  Are all of your ethernet phone closet hubs switch capable?  IME 
the use of Apex running on a SPARC box using a 486-66 PC running X over
a reasonable "switched" smart ethernet network (with the SPARCs scattered
around the workgroups) works pretty well for basic editing, version
control check in/out, compiling and building.  And yes we also use 
local IDE's like Aonix's or even Microsoft Visual C++'s and do not find
any significant speed differences.  Of course if everyone used dual
300 Mhz Pentium II PC's I'm sure we would see a big difference.  I am
curious, just what do your 27 users each have in front of them and what
actually runs Rational Apex at your site?  We have over well over 300+
Apex user licenses at the business campus where I work.

  My biggest problem with X over the network is to get a double click
mouse click action to work - seems like I have to do about four or
five mouse clicks in a row.  Find myself using the right mouse menu
instead.

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