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- From: nicklas@access.digex.com (Randolph C Nicklas)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.windows.ms.programmer,comp.client-server
- Subject: Mission Critical Apps & MS-Windows
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 12:33:00 GMT
- Organization: Intelsat, Washington, D.C., USA
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- My company is considering using Windows 3.1 (W3.1) for a mission
- critical application. Mission critical in general are applications
- such as nuclear reactor systems, air traffic control systems, and
- manned space flight systems. Mission critical in our application
- means real-time, multiply concurrent applications consisting of
- custom-built W3.1 applications, commercially-off-the-shelf (COTS)
- products, ethernet LAN programs with both incoming and outgoing
- traffic, older custom-built DOS applications, and X-Windows
- displays exported from X-applications on the LAN for monitoring and
- controlling a fleet of up to 25 publicly used communications
- satellites. This W3.1 user station is the only access point into
- a distributed computing environment of over 40 server machines; if
- the user station malfunctions there is no other alternative access
- available. Our design is primarily using W3.1 as a client to
- several UNIX servers over the ethernet LAN.
-
- We are searching for people or organizations who currently are, or
- are planning to, use W3.1 for mission critical projects to share
- with us their key reasons for deciding on W3.1. We are also
- looking for groups that have investigated W3.1 and decided not to
- use it for mission critical applications and the reasons why.
-
- We know that many people have strong opinions about W3.1 and we
- respect those opinions; however, we are looking for cases that
- actually evaluated W3.1 and have made a go/no-go decision for using
- it. Also if there are report/articles/studies on using W3.1 for
- mission critical projects -- either pro or con -- we would be
- interested in knowing about such.
-
- Thanks in advance for any and all assistance.
- --
- Randolph C. Nicklas nicklas@digex.com
- Ground Networks Engineering Department 202.944.6938
- International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (Intelsat)
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