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To: Tony Viola who wrote (99498)	2/18/2000 11:14:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 186894

Tony - thanks for passing the ball - I think that is a pretty good article. RE: who's going to be the first, second and third lines of defense for Linux run systems when they fail? The biggest penetration so far has been in cookie-cutter web server applications. With appropriate technology, which has been in use for several years and is not too complex, individual machines can fail without disrupting service, so reliability of a specific box is not much of an issue. And because the configuration is simple - essentially the OS and a single application, usually Apache - the machines are actually fairly robust. A competent Linux jock can maintain a farm of a thousand servers and have plenty of playtime. There is a lot of self-sufficiency in that end of the market - and a tight community of people who support each other. That paradigm is gradually being extended to other simple tasks - file and print services and other "vanilla" applications. Time will tell what the horizontal spread of that kind of system will be. But there are lots of folks in the industry who believe that a powerhouse like Intel could enable a larger class of applications on Linux with tolerable industrial strength, and without the need for large support organizations outside of the hosting companies themselves - especially if one of those hosting companies is Intel.