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Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:44:35 -0500

Guido van Rossum writes:

(2) In two application development shops with which I am engaged, the main application runs on a large Unix box, but the developers' and DBAs' workstations are Windows (2000) PCs -- is this atypical?

I've never seen it, but I suppose I'm atypical. :-)

I've seen it, and I suspect it's pretty common. In the specific situation I worked in, we were developing a 3-tier vertical-market application. We had a server that provided database access with domain logic & security, and a "fat" GUI client for Windows. (For people who don't know what a 3-tier system is, the 3rd tier is the data storage layer -- Oracle 7 in our shop.) Our server ran on a variety of platforms: NT, several Unix flavors, and VMS.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation