On Thu, 20 May 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote: > While I hope it's obvious that I have similar partisan sympathies, I'll > just note that people deploy servers to provide application services, not > operating systems. If someone's stuck with an application that demands > Windows -- and lots of third-party apps do; it's not just Exchange and SQL > Server -- then Windows becomes the server OS of choice. > > IOW, I deploy servers to please customers, not to be aligned with Google, > Yahoo!, or Amazon.
Paul, While I can think of exceptions to your statement about operating systems, your points are well made. I wonder if there are data (carefully researched or empirical and anecdotal) about running those Windows apps in a virtual machine on a linux server. A curious mind, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
