Subject: Re: Adrian must be happy...
From: Matthew Keller (kellermg@potsdam.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 09:43:12 EDT
"Temple, Matthew H." wrote:
> Though I'm sure Sun would be very happy with this claim,
> others such as Celera Genomics seem to think that TruUnix scales
> pretty well. (Good enough to process the entire first pass of
> the Human Genome project.) Let's not turn this group into a Sun
> propaganda mill. After all, Netatalk is one of the mainstays
> of the GPL world and it's certainly true that if Sun REALLY
> ruled the world, this free and excellent program would never
> have been born in its current form. Also, Linux is still just
> a baby, so we'll see how things scale as it grows up. :-)
Don't get me wrong- I'm a die-hard Linux user, and have worked a lot on
large scale Linux systems (2/4/6/8way, clusters, etc.) - I love Linux,
its portability, its accessibility, its versatility, its availability,
etc. etc. - But I also work with a number of large companies that need
serious horsepower that Linux cannot scale too at this point - Believe
me, I *KNOW* it will happen. IBM is pouring a lot of money into SMP on
Linux because they want it to scale too, and thank God it's under the
GPL instead of the FreeBSD license, as IBM wouldn't have to share their
SMP stuff. (Heh, I probably just started a license philosophy war ;).
--Matthew Keller WebMaster & Lead Programmer/Analyst Distributed Computing/Telemedia Information Services Division State University of New York at Potsdam Website: http://mattwork.potsdam.edu/ PGP: http://mattwork.potsdam.edu/crypto/ Webcam: http://webcam.mattwork.potsdam.edu:85/
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