Re: Running Cocoa applications from file servers
Re: Running Cocoa applications from file servers
- Subject: Re: Running Cocoa applications from file servers
- From: John Joyce <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:40:37 -0600
On Feb 25, 2009, at 12:00 PM, email@hidden wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Erik Buck
<email@hidden> wrote:
Where did the fetish for installing every single application on the
local hard disk come from ? Isn't it insane to have 35 installed
copies of OmniGraffle using up disk space just because you have 35
licenses ? Why is MS Word on every disk instead of just the server?
... because network interruptions (especially intermittent ones) can
wreak havoc on your running apps. :-) That's my main reason.
--
I.S.
In other words, most desktop apps are not really built for handling
packet loss, which is an inevitable aspect of network apps.
Most apps think they are being run from an attached storage device,
but do not know that their resources may become unavailable suddenly.
Imagine a simple button or graphic or plist that is only loaded when
it is needed... go to load it... packets are lost during
transmission... the app chokes, becomes unresponsive and user data is
lost because the app does not know how to handle this predicament.
If an app is designed for being run from a server, fine. If not,
possibly not fine.
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