Re: linux supportablity

From: Jim Richardson (warlock_at_eskimo.com)
Date: 08/21/04 

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 20:00:18 GMT

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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 07:37:36 -0000,
 Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:
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> In comp.os.linux.misc Jason Bowen <no@spam.net> suggested:
>> Dave Uhring wrote:
>>> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 23:00:09 +0000, Michael Heiming wrote:
>>>>In comp.os.linux.misc Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> suggested:
> [..]
>>> It's just that some people cannot understand that one OS is simply not
>>> suitable for *all* purposes.
>
> Ack, mostly the availability of the app will demand the OS.
>
>>> Hell, I will even use Windows Server where
>>> the application demands it despite my repugnance for anything which comes
>>> from that corrupt and felonious company.
>
> Don't think I'd do that, simply not stable enough for serious
> computing. But I've been told it would be a well supported
> gaming platform.
>

Amusingly enough, one of my clients uses W2k3 for an internal exchange
server, and the usual AD crap. I monitor that box (along with the
workhorse Linux servers) using Nagios, I had to turn off the
notifications of the W2K3 server going down (or at least, becoming
unresponsive) because it does so about every 3-4 days for about 10-20
mins. Nothing in the logs, the MS-Windows admin (a competent guy, he
just like MS-Windows) has no idea why it does it. It just does it.

Microsoft, the closest thing to non-determinism in a computer.

>> Yeah because we all know McNealy isn't friends with anybody at that
>> company. He's got a serious case of Gates envy.
>
> Will sun be the next SCO, in M$ hopeless fight against linux?
>

SUN has a serious multiple personality wrt Linux, it's going to hurt
them in the long run.

Sun needs to decide if they are a hardware company, or a service
company, or both, but the OS company business, is going the way of the
buggy whip manufacturers. Adapt or die.

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Jim Richardson     http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
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