On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Scott Howard wrote: > If you want to run a machine with 20 processes, Solaris is your OS. If you > want to run a small cheap file/web/proxy server, then Linux is the way to go. > If you want something between these two, then the solution will vary...
And if you want to run: - A fault tolerant 8000-CPU search engine; - A stock exchange reporting application which processes the sale of 5 billion shares a day; - A supercomputer which is 10% of the normal cost (or 10x faster for the same cost); - A global content delivery system distributed across more than 50 countries and 100 telecomms networks; - Flight scheduling and accounting systems for an international airline; is Linux not the way to go? These are examples of Linux systems currently in production (some of which are actually conversions from Solaris), which appear to be somewhat more than "small cheap file/web/proxy server" systems. - James -- James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
