It might help us if you defined what you mean by 'heavy loads' -- do you mean heavy loads as regards to network traffic? heavy loads as regards web site hits?
Just a thought, Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 02:09 PM 12/20/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Thank you Carroll for your response. I think the desktop is being looked >at closely and I am happy to say that other than a specialized accounting >package all of the other software we use is not Windows specific. Most of >the apps used here are in the process of being ported to the web. Another >big task used heavily is connection to the S/390 Mainframe and that will >not be a problem under Linux either. > >My question now focuses on the stability of Mandrake as a server platform. >We are now testing it and I have personally been using it since the first >box shipped. I have personally run into problems with it in some area's >and when I worked for a dot.com last year we tried to run it as our web >server and in our tests at the time other Distro's did circles around it. >So, the big question is, in your experience or anyone's--would you TRUST >it in the enterprise server arena. Talking real world here, not what >ZD-MSNet say's, but has anyone put it to a real day to day test under >heavy loads. > >Thanks, > >-Scott > > > > >On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Carroll Grigsby wrote: >> If the definition of "desktop" is restricted to ordinary office usage -- word >> processing, spreadsheets, e-mail, accessing mainframe applications, stuff >> like that -- then Linux is ready today, as evidenced by the many recent >> stories about various organizations that have de-fenestrated themselves. I >> personally have a lot of problems with the so-called experts in the tech >> media (ZDNet comes to mind) who keep saying that if it isn't exactly like >> MicroSoft Office, nobody's going to be able to use it. Nonsense! Any fairly >> bright person who is accustomed to MS Office should be able to use StarOffice >> with very little effort. (And if they aren't bright enough to do it, then >> perhaps they aren't bright enough to remain on the payroll.) Sure, some >> of the geegaws have different names, or they look different, or the pop-ups >> are organized differently, but the real differences are really very small -- >> certainly no greater than making the transition from WordPerfect and Lotus to >> Word and Excel, and yet lots of us did just that during the great Microsoft >> putsch of the late 90's. >> >> However, if the definition of desktop is expanded to include all of the >> various computer-based activities that actually go on in an office, the >> answer depends on exactly whose desktop we're talking about: Not everyone in >> the office is doing the same thing. Case in point: Prior to retirement last >> spring, I was a product design engineer and, along with two other guys, spent >> most of the day using AutoCad and Pro Engineer. There were also four or five >> manufacturing engineers who used AutoCad LT in their work. Problem: There are >> no Linux versions of these products, nor do they work under wine or win4lin. >> (OK, that's not entirely true. I understand that win4lin will run AutoCad >> LT.) And, although I'd like to be proven wrong on this, I haven't found any >> suitable Linux equivalents to either of these programs. Meantime, over in the >> the HR area, they were running a specialized application program (mandated by >> corporate) that was also windows-specific. And then there's the MSDS database >> that was on everyone's desktop -- again, windows only. And so it goes... the >> problem isn't with the office suites, it's the specialized apps that are >> going to give you troubles. >> >> It's always easier to identify the obstacles than find the solution, of >> course, and I hope you'll be able to pull it off -- it's a worthy goal -- but >> there are some big obstacles out there. I promise to back you up until your >> nose bleeds. >> >> Best regards, >> Carroll >> >> >> >> > >-- > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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