> Wrong sorry. Actually the reason why most companies choose to have
> Solaris, Is that Wall Street (If your in the US and a technology company
> wanting to go public) will look at the OS that your company uses and it
does
> have some effect on what your IPO is going to be.
I'd disagree with that somewhat. One of the major reasons for Sun
Microsystem's success in the 1990's was because they would sell their high
end machines to sketchy start up dot coms while others like Compaq, IBM, HP
etc would not. It was a lot easier to arrange a payment plan with Sun for
their servers than say IBM. And remember, the free *nix's like BSD and
Linux were no where near production grade in the early 90's.
FYI.
-- Steve
> Sean
>
> From: "Niles Rowland" Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 12:07 AM
> >
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > I understand that Free BSD and Linux are the overwhelming choices of
> > the
> > > Internet pornography industry. That is a good technical figure of
> > merit,
> > > because it means these servers are stable (for HTTP) when getting
> > lots and
> > > lots of hits.
> > >
> >
> > Actually, Linux and FreeBSD are the systems of choice in startup porn
> > companies because of their low cost. Once a company begins to move
> > major traffic they find that low cost systems have too many
> > limitations to handle what the leaders of the company want to do.
> > This is when they use their new found wealth to buy Solaris.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
