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IBM to contribute Symphony to OpenOffice.org

Posted Jul 14, 2011 18:12 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: IBM to contribute Symphony to OpenOffice.org by jonabbey
Parent article: IBM to contribute Symphony to OpenOffice.org

By having a 'bin' directory, say.

Or even, radical idea, by just working if your home directory is NFS-mounted, like every other piece of Linux and Unix software out there. I can understand not wanting to run over NFS if you're a massive relational database, but for anything else there is just no excuse.

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Posted Jul 14, 2011 18:40 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

actually, massive relational databases (like Oracle) don't complain about running over NFS, in fact, I've had cases where that has been the vendor recommended configuration (the performance will depend heavily on your NFS server, and you don't want to have multiple systems accessing the data over NFS at the same time... but it can work very well under the right conditions)

IBM to contribute Symphony to OpenOffice.org

Posted Jul 14, 2011 23:08 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Oh yes, of course. Sorry, the last time I installed a big Oracle DB was so long ago (2002? something like that) that direct I/O was still the preferred-verging-on-mandatory I/O method.