On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Edward S. Marshall wrote:
> > > > Probably, although it wouldn't be a single box, and probably not running
> > > > a free Unix.
> > >
> > > Why not?
> >
> > No (or few) technical reasons. The same reasons that my work uses Solaris
> > for everything expect a few routers and lightly loaded proxies. By the
> > time you deal with 1M mails a day (and not mailing list traffic) you want
> > a little more resilience to whatever failures may come..
>
> That's suit mentality, frankly. I've run both Solaris and Linux systems in
> heavily loaded situations, and have had greater long-run stability from a
> well-tuned linux system.
That's basically my point. Whether Solaris, Linux or BSD is "better"
(whatever that means in this case) is not too relevant to me. They would
all, I think, do a more than adequate job.
And NT/Exchange simply can't cope with much more than a light load.
Matthew
