On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 01:39 -0500, Myth User wrote: > > Linux could very well succeed in the server room in large measure not > > because of TCO but because there are enough people that don't like > > Microsoft or don't want to use Windows Server for whatever reason. > > > Linux could succeed in the server room if it had the functionality. > > Care to show me where an organization the size of even a regional bank is > using MySQL instead of Oracle or SQL Server? ---- I'm not a big fan of MySQL nor have I ever used Oracle or MS SQL server. I actually use PostgreSQL and I think pound for pound, it competes but I am not a real db tech. What was the point here? Oracle runs on Red Hat, runs on Windows. PostgreSQL runs on UNIX/Linux/Windows. ---- > > In an earlier post you said something about knowing strengths and weakness > etc. > > Are you now asserting that Linux is in any form an enterprise wide solution? ---- probably for those who use it and probably not for those who disdain it. I would submit that there are a lot of knowledgeable people that consider Windows insufficient for enterprise. Opinions are like rectums...everybody's got one. Same goes for TCO studies. ---- > > Know what forget it. > > You and your pals are right. > > All the millions spent on AIX, Solaris, NT and it's derivatives are > pointless. All they needed was a couple of old A64 MB's and a "hot swap > IDE" cage. > > I suppose we'll see something like IBM's 272 CPU SQL Server in moochware > soon. > > yum install freedatacenter > > Please add me to your kill filters. I'm done. I will never go to salt lake > city and tell them there are other religions again. ---- yum install freedatacenter...I like the sound of that. From the looks of it...yum install freedatacenter is not something you will ever be able to do on a Windows platform. see ya Craig
