On Monday 10 October 2005 18:03, Stefan Teleman wrote: > 1. noone cares about spec numbers, in production systems. the only > thing "they" care about is for the software to run reliably, and to do > what it is supposed to do, when it is supposed to do it.
Stefan, I wouldn't say that's completely true, there are actually some folks that design data centers around spec numbers. Most of the folks I know do not do that, but I do hear there are folks that do that. I 'spose this needs to be taken into consideration, since there are some folks that do that. It would be interesting to understand why those folks that do design data centers based on spec numbers do that. So, let's just say that Linux is faster is some operations (which it most certainly is, even though it's slower in others). Let's say that you need to select an OS. Do you select it on the results that point to a faster system on Linux for a specific task? I think that answer to that could be yes, depending on if you really need that task for the majority of your work. However, I don't see folks making decisions like that. In my experience they try to be rational about their choice in systems and pick the one that has a majority of overall advantages. There are many pieces that come into play for OS selection. Managment of the system, stability, development tools, supported APIs, even how a system can handle a load. I'd like to take a step back and concede that Linux is faster at some operations. I know Sun's performance group is working to tighten up that very gap in those areas. What does this all mean? -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - Sun on Sun is the way of the future! _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
