Re: Low/No Cost Unix

[Bill Weinman <wew@bearnet.com>]

At 04:08 PM 2/23/98 -0600, Scott Williams spake:
>doing the same thing would be fantastic. But, equipment, software, 
>installation, support costs were factors. Unix would have been almost $460k 
>and NT cost $212k. The NT route was chosen. No regrets. I would, however, 
>question NT's ability to control a DP environment.

   Hmmm... my experience is the oposite: Linux does the same work with 
FAR less hardware than NT. 

   My office uses a Linux box to do everything our NT server used to 
do: filesharing (SMB with Samba), print servers, mail servers, etc. In 
fact, this old 90Mhz Pentium with 16MB of ram is performing roughly 
twice as well as it used to with 64MB of RAM running NT!

   Extra bonus: We used to have to reboot NT nightly, just on general 
principal (if we didn't, it would complain the next day). Checking the 
uptime on the Linux box: 

  $ uptime
     7:44pm  up 87 days,  4:29, 12 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.02

'Nuff said,

--Bill



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