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To: Sbtorres who wrote (6026)	12/7/1997 12:58:00 PM
From: Thomas Haegin	Respond to of 64865

Re: Server's link Thanks Sbtorres, << a post eons ago >> Man, it reads like eons, but it was only this February :) Thomas

To: Sbtorres who wrote (6026)	12/7/1997 7:25:00 PM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

With all respect to Jeff of Silicon Investor - his reply is uninformed - I'm glad Silicon Investor - great service that it is - is not a money making venture for now because they would be going into battle with a pop gun (NT) and justifying it mistakenly on cost. In my opinion this is NT's only advantage - that it is percieved as the ONLY route because of its mass availability and mind share and perhaps monoploy status covering over its severe technical limitations a great majority of web sites are using Linux or Free BSD Unix which runs on intel and public domain web servers like Apache. I believe Apache for Unix is THE most popular web server far ahead of IIS or Netscape. There are commercial versions of Unix such as Sun Solaris for Intel - NCR is going to run Solaris for Intel for its very large SMP servers - so Unix on Intel today certainly scales far above NT will well into the next millenium. The cost of moving to Unix on Intel since there would be no additional cost of hardware would even be less than for NT - since the great majority of tools are available many of them in the public domain - a site like Yahoo uses Unix on Intel servers and there is no complaints about its scalability or the lack of features from having no NT available software for it. When Jeff says that a Unix system would cost in the millions of dollars he is referring to a large data center regardless of whether its Unix, NT, VMS, MVS or whatever. Im sure Silicon Investor doesnt need a Data Center but if they wanted to go the Commercial Unix Server route a Sun 450 Server would be around $20,000, the same price range as a Proliant from Compaq but with 3 times the I/O - but with all the benefits of Solaris on a high end machine.