hi! why don't IBM/Database C, one free DBase small? tks --- Sharon Phillips <phillipsds / yahoo.co.uk> escribióº > > argggh, of all db, why oracle?? ora is too big. > try postgres (i > > know mysql/sqlite, but i am bias for postgres =). > I'd love to use postgres, and I used to do a lot of > work with > Firebird at one stage, but I'm stuck with Oracle. We > also use DB2 and > Terradata. > > > arggh, first the big db, now a gui?? this will tax > your monitored > > clients and will skew your observations > (mem/cpu/etc); consider > > heizenberg principle > I work in a classified environment, so I can't give > too much detail > about what I do, so here's a vague outline: > I work as part of a small team that supports a > number of > applications, most of which run on unix boxes. These > applications are > reasonably complex and busy. > I'm not interested in CPU or mem usage (we have > unicentre and other > dedicated teams to monitor and manage these) but > rather specifics > within the system. Can't give examples. Sorry. > There are times when things break and we have little > warning, if any, > but some type of dashboard would have given us the > ability to preempt > some of these. That's what I'm trying to build. > Nothing can be added to the servers. I'm proposing > something that > runs on our machines. > > > a web app, like rails, is less resource hogger > than oracle. > > if rails is "big" for you, try nitro or iowa or > webrick. > > run a drb server on the central node, the clients > will run drb > > clients. > I don't have a problem with Rails, but I prefer the > style of Camping > better. Not much experience (as in close to zero) > with either. > > Thanks to everyone else for the suggestions too. > I think I'll have a closer look at JRuby. This seems > the best fit > currently, and I understand it can bridge to Java? > That would be useful. > > Cheers, > Dave > > Jose Manuel Garcia Licenciado en Administracion Orientacion Seguros y Reaseguros Universidad Nacional de La Matanza Te (011) 4300-0239 Cel (011) 15 52616386 __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ratis! RegùÔtrate ya - http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/