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To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (8548)	2/15/2001 12:27:31 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

In any mission critical application the ideal is that all source of all programs used to create the application system should be available. Linux and maybe freebsd qualify for this. But one must define the application. In certain area's Linux may currently fall short. This is more in large applications. In small embedded application linux or freebsd may really be the optimum solution. At Linux expo SGI is moving all the failover technology into linux for their clustered servers and xfs as a journaling file system is now available beta. This creates a new larger scope of mission critical application space for Linux. But in der big stuff IBM SGI SUN and vitually any other unix is orders of magnitude a better choice than any of the msft OSes. All unixes have millions of hours under of developmental test more than any msft os. Unixes evolved over tens of years of multiuser multitasking server space applications. Linux took a multi-user multi-tasking network aware unix to a person workstation application space. Msft is attempting to add or evolve OSes from a DOS single task launcher to a multi-tasking multi-user application space. The real problem of msft oses is the architecture of ill defined interfaces is rife for compromise and bugs. msft OSes are so bloated and buggy that using for other than individual applications is just a plain dumb idea. Linux has very clear layers or interfaces between the kernal the graphical interface and the network interfaces. Applications sit on top of this well layered set of foundation interfaces. But there are some limitations in the core of the linux kernal and it's interfaces that may make is not the best choice for certain applications. I currently in the process of putting together a new trading workstation. I'm hoping to use the new suse 7.1 release that has the new 2.4 kernal which advances the technolgy of the linux kernal. I also am going to try the sgi xfs as the new system will have 45 gig drives and the current ext2 file system takes many minutes to do a file system check with the 13 gig drives I currently use. I hoping to integrate all four display into a single system and use wmware to create virtual nt 4.0 machines running within linux so that I can run the investment borg only (esignal) applications within the linux space. Tom Watson tosiwmee