Re: Sun's Perl was Re: Application servers and e-commerce platforms

[Andy Williams]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:35:45AM +0000, Steve Mynott wrote:
> > I suspect things like SMP probably still work better.  And if I were
> > on call supporting a server I would probably still trust a Sparc
> > running Solaris over some dodgy PC desktop with Redhat stuck on it by
> > a hobbyist who has never used another UNIX.
>
> Multi processor Solaris runs rings around any of the free Unixes.
> They've had kernel threads for nearly 10 years, and it's very optimized.
>
> I suspect that SGIs IRIX is equally good, but I have no experience of
> that to speak from.
>

Tru64 from Compaq isn't too shabby either... however they are expensive...
probably get the same power to cost ratio with clustered Linux boxes on
Intel!!

Andy