How effective is Linux as a Server

Chris Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 10:35 +0200, Aragorn wrote:
>> On Monday 31 August 2009 10:08, someone identifying as *The Natural
>> Philosopher* wrote in /comp.os.linux.setup:/
>>
>>> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>>
>>>> Apple systems are, from harsh experience, an expensive joke for
>>>> fanboys. Every Apple server I've seen anyone buy has turned out to be
>>>> an unstable mess, purchased by a fanboy who didn't consult the years
>>>> or decades of experience around them and who quickly left the
>>>> company.
>>>>
>>>> UNIX systems have historically been interesting, but most of the
>>>> commercial and certainly the more powerful freeware databases have
>>>> been expanding or migrating to Linux suspport. And Oracle recently
>>>> bought Sun, so you can kiss Sun versions of UNIX goodbuy within 5
>>>> years: you may as save yourself a migration and slip over the Linux
>>>> world earlier.
>>> Apple is for people who dont understand computers and are proud of it.
>>>
>>> MS is for people who think they understand computers and are proud of
>>> it.
>>>
>>> Linux is for people who do understand computers and are not especially
>>> proud of it.
>> Microsoft Windows XP : "Where do you want to go today?"
>>
>> Apple OS-X : "Where do you want to go tomorrow?"
>>
>> GNU/Linux : "Are you guys still coming or what?"
>>
>> :p
>
> Linux: Go anywhere you want, anytime you want, anyway you want.
>
> Apple: Going there is a journey and should be enjoyed no matter what
> path you take. Just be happy and all will be well.
>
> Microsoft: "Let me tell you where you can go!"
>
>
Nah.

Linux: You have log tables, a theodolite and a sextant, a magnetic
compass, a telescope, LORAN and a GPS that sometimes works and sometimes
doesn't and every single map that anyone has ever made, covering all the
territory ten times over, but you just cant find the right one..and a
car you have to make yourself, but its a good one. Goes off road.

Mascintosh has the GPS working perfectly, and so do the maps, but
contains only maps to where apple think you want to go, and once you
move outside that there is no way to tell where you are. But they do
provide emergency get you home support at a huge price..and the scenery
is always pleasing. Its like a chauffeur driven limo. Cant do dirt roads
worth a damn, but will get you to the mall in style and comfort.


Microsoft provides a GPS that's flaky, and a limited set of maps mostly
leading to places where you end up spending money. Really its more like
public transport: If it happens to get you where you want to go, or
wherever everyone else is going, and you can stand the delays and
strikes and blue screens, and don't mind running the risk of catching
something off your fellow passengers, and try to ignore the obvious bits
of suspension poking up through the floor, its cheap and does well enough.

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:56:59 -0700, Mike cco_uk wrote:

> I would like to know how Linux stacks up Windows as a server,

Excellent.

> especially using databases!

what database?
size?
data flow in and out?

> It may be called a database server but I'm not sure. Anybody know the
> comparisons?

*nix did databases before DOS was around.





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