Re: IDE/Rational Apex experiences

["bklungle" <bklungle@ix.netcom.com>]

To answer your questions as best I can:
1. From the time you press the enter key to a query to the return of the
prompt.
2. Apex is running on an SGI/Indigo2 with 128MB ram
3. All users are using SGI/Indigo2(s)
4. Don't know about the closet but will check if you really think it means
anything.
5. They are using all kinds of IDEs also (including MSVC++5.0).
6. The network is 10MB TP Ethernet.

bob


>>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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