On 19 Jan 2002, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 10:50, Nick Wilson wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > * On 19-01-02 at 16:16 > > * Dave Ihnat said.... > > > > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 09:09:08AM -0500, Bob Staaf wrote: > > > > AOL/Time Warner buying Red Hat might be great for those who use Linux as a > > > > Desktop workstation but, anyone actually believe they care about competing > > > > in the server market? > > > > > > As a professional in the field, I'm afraid if that happens I'll not > > > only switch myself, I'll actively recommend against the "new" Redhat to > > > my clients. They're just the wrong player in this field. > > > > Here here! > > I'm not against making Linux a more popular alternative but AOL? Jeeez! > > - -- > > > I have never really USED another linux distro. I have installed and > dinked with several. Here are a couple of almost random (meaning not > really thought out) thoughts. > > Several years ago I was at the Linux Expo in Raleigh right after AOL > bought/bailed out Netscape. ( Does anyone think there would be a > netscpae if AOL had not stepped in?). One of the speakers at the expo > was the chief technology officer from netscape and a new AOL employee. > He said one thing that really made me think. I will paraphrase: > > " We have all laughed at AOL's technology and assumed that it was > substandard. Those of use who have run networks with thousands of users > think we are pretty good. Now consider running a network with 15 millon > simultaneous users world wide. Makes you think? AOL has this every day > of every week. These guys know what the are doing." > > It did make me think. I thought the work managment system I worked on > at a meduim sized utility that supported ~1500 users that was integrated > across os2, win 95, and HPUX, all talking to a faily good sized DB2 data > base on MVS through CICS and in turn talked to the inventory management, > customer service, time reporting, and property accounting systems was a > pretty big deal. It was. Now take that and increase it by 4 orders of > magnitude. Not four times butadd four zeros. Holy shit! Maybe those > guys do know what is going on.
I remember reading a couple years ago that AOL is using over 20,000 Sparc servers. The number must be much bigger now. Maybe they should think about Linux on a mainframe. Werner _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
