Re: SMP & threads for SQL queries
Date: 1996/09/05
Message-ID: <322EFFF2.496F68CF_at_fc.net>#1/1
Jay Walters wrote:
>
> If this is a "real app" I would suggest using software you
> have to pay for (sorry Linus, FSF, GNU, ...) at least for the
> OS and RDBMS.
Jay,
You just spewed flame-bait material. Your remarks show willful ignorance and a closed mind. That said:
(1) Linux is well on the path of becoming the best UNIX out
there, as compared to SCO, Irix, AIX, HP/UX, DEC/Unix, Solaris. It has already overtaken more than a couple of these in quality, robustness, ("RAS" reliability, availability, serviviceability), quantity of device drivers available, and other big-server, 24x7x52 uptime considerations.
(I recently, gleefully learned that it runs on a Fujitsu SuperSparc-based 16-way supercomputer, which, with the exception of IBM's AIX and its RS/6000-based SP supercomputer series, is more than most OS's can say).
(2) Although Oracle, Informix, DB2 etc. ignore linux, there are
(3) The rumour on the street is that more than half of all web
servers on the planet are linux boxes. I can't confirm the rumour, but you might try checking with the big market research firms. I think you can count that as a "real app".
--linas Received on Thu Sep 05 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST