Cheryl, It's a good decision. IMHO, this is an "apple" and "orange" situation. There is no possible way to achieve performance, scalability, and security on MS similar or even close to UNIX/Linux environment. We are comparing two distinctly different operating systems. Said so, I must admit my laptop has two partitions, NT and Linux. Almost all office work I do on NT, all development - on Linux. I also have to add that my development environment is Java on Open Source. From what I know, I am not alone. I suppose the most difficult choice you have to make now in a selection of a development environment for a “new big thing” – Web Services. Here you have to choose between .NET with C# on MS or Java on Linux/UNIX. And it will be a discrete choice – those environments are absolutely non-compatible. I made my choice for now. I believe it’s a good choice, but to argument it I need a lot of time and writing space. So, it's up to you and obviously depends on task you want to achieve. Regards, Peter
"Cheryl D. Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Interesting that your colleague's W2K box has so many problems. Mine has >been running since April 2000. The only time it has been down since then >is when I've shut it down (occasionally bad storms cause power problems >beyond what my UPS can reasonably be expected to handle) and a few times >when I've installed security patches and/or updates that required a >reboot. With W2K very few items that I need on a server require a >reboot. > >I have never once had to reboot the system once because it became >unstable. I was gone for 2 months this summer leaving my nanny in >charge of the house, dogs and computers (kids were with me). She had to >reboot the server once while I was gone due to a power outage of 6 hours >well beyond the capabilities of my UPS. Since she doesn't have admin >privileges on my network (no big surprise there) ALL she could do is >turn the server back on. She had to do that because that server runs the >DHCP service without it the computer she is authorized to use couldn't >connect to the internet. She rebooted her computer after restarting the >server and all was back to normal. > >That occurred first week in June. Other than applying one patch and >using the server to check a couple of websites (it still has IE 5 on it) >I haven't touched it since. > >As I said, when next we upgrade a computer we'll take one of the old >boxes and put Linux on it as a learning experience for my partner but it >won't be because our W2K Server has been unreliable. More to expand our >knowledge base than anything else. > >Cheryl D. Wise >WiserWays >Office: 713.353.0139 >Mobile: 713.412.0406 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-----Original Message----- >From: David Precious > >It's well worth it. It's not that hard to learn it (especially if you >just >want to use it and have someone else who can do the setting up and >sysadmin >work for you). > >If you have a window manager like KDE, it's kinda like using Windoze, >only a >few hundred times better. > >My machine is left on 25 hours a day, 7 days a week. Every day, I do a >lot of >hard work on it, it gets a good thrashing. My colleagues Win2000 box is > >lucky to stay up for 3 days without becoming unstable. > >My current uptime: > > 9:09am up 29 days, 21:34 > >Yep, 29 DAYS continuous usage, and everything's still as stable as a >rock. > >Another Linux box I set up upstairs to run some automatic processes >(including one which involves contacting BT's site to check ADSL >availability >for batches in the region of 15,000 numbers each time), has been up for >54 >days and performing great! Other Linux boxes in the company also run >and run >and run. It's great for a workstation, and obviously it's a brilliant >operating system for any kind of server. > >I'd definately recommend it. It's so bloody stable, plus of course it's >free! > >Cheers > >Dave P > > > >On Wednesday 11 September 2002 3:51 pm, you wrote: >> And then I'll have to learn Linux? Aaah! >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: David Precious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 12:16 PM >> Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: Intelligent computers? (was: RE: [ot (kind >> of)] IE and Downloads...) >> >> > > And they want to give computers intelligence!!! >> > > >> > > Joseph >> > >> > Yeah, but if that happens all the "intelligent" computers will >> > remove >> >> Windows >> >> > from themselves and install Linux! >> > >> > Dave >> > >> > ____ . 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