On 1/18/07 5:40 PM, "Tom" <toma at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> Cost, reliability, stability, security
> 
> Just a few to name ;-)
> 

Right. All of which have more to do with the DAMS you may be using, the
database server, the storage device, etc. than the server OS.

> On Jan 18, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Morgan, Matt wrote:
> 
>> On 1/17/07 10:36 AM, "Jeffrey Evans" <jfevans at Princeton.EDU> wrote:
>> 
>>> Notwithstanding what others will say on this list, get a Unix
>>> server... SGI,
>>> Sun, or Xserve.  Always better for images.
>> 
>> What impact does the server OS have on images? Are you writing to a
>> filesystem or a DB? Direct Attached Storage, NAS, or SAN? I'm a big
>> fan of
>> Unix but it's only one piece of the pie here.
>> 
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