Re: RE: Perl most prolific web-app dev environment

[jadams01]

Jesse Erlbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> IMHO, Sun hardware is unnecessary in all but about 20% of the places
> it is currently in use. As commodity hardware continues to improve,
> the capabilities of Linux continue to improve, and the trend
> towards clustering more and smaller machines persists, Sun hardware
> (and software) will become more and more unnecessary.

Not that I'm a big fan of Sun (please don't ask me about our last
outage--it's Friday, and I want to relax), but I don't know what we
+could+ replace our larger systems with if we wanted to keep running
Oracle in a 24/7 production environment.

Granted, there are alternatives to Oracle (okay, at our size, there's
exactly +one+ alternative), but it, too, runs on proprietary hardware. I'm impressed, 
in a proof-of-concept kind of way, by the DB2/Linux 128-box clustering experiment--but 
I'm in production.

All the best,

             John A
             (see you at OSCON, I expect?)