From cspence@FuelSpot.com Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:57:01 -0700 From: Christopher Spence Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:57:01 -0700 Subject: RE: but will it run windows? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain FreeBSD has some of the worst multiple processor thread support of all the linuxes, although it's IO if I remember well is pretty good. "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes." Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978) 322-5744 Fax: (707) 885-2275 Fuelspot 73 Princeton Street North, Chelmsford 01863 -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I was thinking more along the lines of FreeBSD as optimal cost/benefit ratio. Now, if you can throw the Winders gui over a freeBSD codebase... Oh, wait, there is Mac OS... Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX Christopher Spence wrote: > > Not everyone can throw money/hardware at an OS's deficiencies. > Os deficiencies? It takes $60,000 server to run Solaris OK. > In NT you get the same performance at about $5,000. Most of the > deficiences are to the poor performance of the intel processor in > comparison to the 64bit risc counterparts. Till you hit around > $100,000 or more, do you see the real advantages of the unix platform. > > Christopher R. Spence > Oracle DBA _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Scott Shafer INET: sknd100@yahoo.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Christopher Spence INET: cspence@FuelSpot.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).