On Thu, 20 May 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > 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.
Running on bare metal or in a virtualization container, it's still a Windows deployment (and a licen$e). I usually need an overabundance of evidence that Windows is the only reasonable deployment platform for any given application -- and I typically prefer the text-configuration methods common to *nix -- but within those boundaries (and initial configuration stumbles notwithstanding), I've had no more trouble with Windows servers than Linux or Solaris. Of course, I don't ask a lot of my Windows servers, so it's not like the bar is set all that high... -- Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
