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To: ToySoldier who wrote (22081)	5/4/1999 11:36:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Linux is a "Toy" operating system ... computerworld.com Linux gushes savings for oil giant Switch from IBM saves Hess nearly $2M Saddled with low oil prices and a need to cut costs, global oil giant Amerada Hess Corp. is saving millions of dollars by replacing a costly IBM supercomputer with high-end parallel clusters running Linux, the free Unix variant that some CIOs still regard as a wild card. A 32-node Linux cluster, called a Beowulf supercomputer, lets the company render detailed 3-D images of the seafloor from terabytes of data. The $130,000 Beowulf system performs the task in about the same time — two weeks — as the 32-node IBM SP2 system running AIX that the company paid $2 million to lease for three years, said Vic Forsyth, Amerada Hess' Houston-based manager of geophysical systems. Though the company could have saved at least hundreds of thousands of dollars by opting to set up Windows NT clusters, porting its Unix rendering application would have been a huge chore, Forsyth said. The application is about 2 million lines of code and might have taken years to rewrite for Windows, he said. "We thought about that for three nanoseconds." When oil prices reached the lowest point of the 1990s late last year, Forsyth said, the New York-based, $6.6 billion oil company made the leap to Linux, even though many CIOs still regard the operating system as too untested to be trusted with even comparatively meager jobs like file serving. ... Linux-based Beowulf clusters have become popular supercomputers at several national laboratories, government agencies and universities. But they have been rare in the private sector because CIOs have only begun to consider Linux a reliable, supportable operating system. The MSFT cult was right all along. Linux IS a "Toy" operating system. Linux ... we've only just begun.

To: ToySoldier who wrote (22081)	5/5/1999 12:13:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Sorry but for Novell it's all over but the crying. I spent a lot of time with Novell 3.1.1. through 1991-1994 ... it was a great file/print server but all that stuff is integrated into windows 98 and NT now. Regarding directory services LDAP is where it's at and is where the bulk of the commerical development is going on. Heck even Javasoft as a feeware JNDI LDAP service. On UNIX Sun's NIS (Network Information Service) is the mainstay. Too bad Novell wasted all there time with Unixware, they might have actually got on track with something. p.s. I developed a bunch of NLM's back in 1992 ... I can't believe they've still pushing that crud; hopefully they've improved the development interface (at least)