Re: Jigsaw in general - why not?

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Peter Schuller wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've been wondering; why do all reviewers of Jigsaw seem to say "Hey, it's
> great, but nothing I'd use!"? Everyone seems to agree that Jigsaw is very
> advanced and "on the edge" in terms of features, but reviewers tend to say
> it's nothing for big-time use.

Well, some reviews stated wrong things, like lack of support for virtual
hosts and other things.

> Why? Is there something I'm not aware of? Isn't Jigsaw secure? Isn't it
> stable? What?

jigsaw.w3.org is running Jigsaw, and the latest downtime was when someone
replace one lib that the jvm was using, causing it to coredump... It
handles 20/30khits day with some servlets, CGI and even experimental stuff
on a poor old sparc20, without any problem.
Just to say that we are pretty confident in its stability, and no security
problems have ever been reported.

> So what am I missing? Is it just ignorance on the part of the reviewers, or
> am I the one who's ignorant?

I hope more people can give you feedback, as I am not in the best position
to say that it works ;)
Regards,

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  /\ /  \        Architecture Domain - Jigsaw Activity Leader
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Received on Monday, 10 January 2000 08:22:24 UTC