[rabbitmq-discuss] Rabbit crash, new persister

[Alexis Richardson]

John

We commercially support RabbitMQ on Windows and provide support for
100% free packages through this list.  RabbitMQ has a large number of
deployments on Windows and .NET.  People can rely on us to care about
this.

RabbitMQ was the first AMQP implementation to support the CLR and WCF,
back in Feb 2008.  It was the first to provide an AMQP broker as a
Windows service.  This codebase has been actively improved
continuously since then.  However, since not every version of Windows
behaves the same way, there's no doubt more quirks to be hunted down
and dealt with or accommodated.

RabbitMQ is also being integrated with Spring.NET thereby offering
customers TWO production frameworks for Windows based applications.
Although it has not been released yet, we have also integrated
rabbitmqctl into Windows management - effectively porting the
Alice/Wonderland model to a 100% Windows metaphor.

In the cloud, independence from the underlying hardware does not free
you from the limitations of the O/S.  So we expect to continue to
support Windows and .NET in the cloud.  Please do however note that
Azure is a PaaS, offering a different runtime from vanilla .NET.

Best wishes

alexis





On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Matthew Sackman <matthew at rabbitmq.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 01:15:01PM +0200, John Apps wrote:
>> I have suggested before that you place an official statement saying that
>> Linux is the platform of choice; Windows is tolerated, or words to that
>> effect. If you prefer to have everyone use Linux, then say so!
>
> Well that's not really the case. Windows is more than tolerated, and we
> actually make more effort to support Windows than we make to support OS
> X. It is the case that Linux is the platform of choice, especially for
> a server, but we do not wish to dissuade people from using Rabbit under
> other OSes. If there are things we are not doing which we should be
> doing to support any OS better, then we want to hear about it, not to
> put up some banner saying that we're uninterested.
>
>> I find it hard to take a product seriously when doubts are constantly raised
>> about the platform I am running it on; makes me wonder if I am using the
>> wrong product as I have no choice with the platform.
>
> I am genuinely curious - are we the only makers of software that you use
> that you feel constantly doubt the platform you're running on?
>
>> *>>>*I'm yet to hear of anyone talking about Windows in the
>> cloud*(presumably because if you added a window to a cloud, you'd let
>> the rain out).*
>> You may consider the above statement as in the category "devious" or
>> "dubious" - not helpful at all and blatantly incorrect. Amazon offers
>> Windows in the cloud, MS offers it under the Azure label, MS Business Online
>> Productivity Services is making inroads into Google Applications. To name
>> but a few.
>
> That's very true, sorry for that.
>
> Matthew
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