Re: SMP & threads for SQL queries
Date: 1996/09/11
Message-ID: <516t1c$9ru_at_bamboo.verinet.com>#1/1
In article <514gj7$1nuo_at_usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>, bill davidsen <davidsen_at_tmr.com> wrote:
>In article <322CA463.549E_at_segel.com>, Mike Segel <mikey_at_segel.com> wrote:
>
>| Linux is good for a home hobby system. Like FreeBSD.
>| But to risk a business on it?
>
>Risk how? That you would risk profit from controlling costs.
I installed Linux version 2.0.10 on an old 486DX/66MHz machine and am now currently running the thing as a data base server serving aprox. 9 people under moderate use.
I used no commercial software except for a Motif development and runtime package.
The system has been up and rock solid for quite some time, no crashes, problems or complaints. What kind of risk are you talking about, here?
>| You would be better off getting a real OS like Solaris.
>| Or even (ick!) SCO.
>
>SUpport 'em both. SCO has been less trouble.
What makes SCO or Solaris more real than Linux?
>| Then run a real database like Informix.
>
>I love people like you. They buy top price commercial stuff, pay me
>to install it, and have to pay me to run it because they can't
>justify the $1k or so to buy all the manuals you will ever need.
What makes Informix more real than any other data base program?
(Incidentally, I have used Informix version 5, and it has some pretty nasty bugs in it. Software is software. Bugs are bugs. Note: commercial software is more likely to have bugs than free software. Less eyes to look at the source code, and most companies make a profit on bug fix releases and support. They are monetarily motivated to have an "acceptable" level of software bugs. I have had two different managers admit this to me.)
>| Yeah, you can do some hacks to get it to work, but its like
>| buying a used bus held together with bailing wire. The money
>| you save up front, you spend in repairs.
>|
>| Just my $.02.
>
>Cheap as half the price.
Actually, I made a lot of money for the company on the deal. The box was surplus, about to be scrapped. I replaced a $12000 MacIntosh with a box whose total cost to the company was less than $100 (I bought a SCSI adapter card for it). And not only does the Linux box run like a champ, it also servers as an Apple file and printer server (thanks to the good folks who wrote NETATALK, a truly *GREAT* piece of softare).
Go ahead, spend the enourmous amount of money it takes to go commercial.
Heck, my brother software engineers need the money. But when the money comes out of my pocket, then I'll choose the method with the best price/performace ratio.
John S. Received on Wed Sep 11 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST