Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 04, 2002 12:53 PM
Be serious. I've been an SA for 20 years and have worked with AIX since '88 when it was release 2. When it went to 3, it was the first and the only one to have an LVM and dynamic kernel at that time. If IBM didn't keep shooting themselves in the marketing foot, the race would have been over years ago.
Linux was created by developers for developers - period. As such, it's not standard and constantly changing; erronous or missing man pages and other documentation; various commands and options that don't work; a terribly screwed up NFS implementation, to name just a few.
Would I put this in a mission critical role? Hell no. And for anyone who hasn't had to administer systems built by developers... well, let me just say it's a very painful experience.
I'm not bashing developers, but lets face it, they're not concerned about the scalability, infrastructure, standards, long term reliability, maintainability or anything outside of development.
The only way I'd ever use Linux in an important role, is if I built it myself from the ground up, which is the whole point, right? If you don't like it, change it.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 04, 2002 12:53 PMLinux was created by developers for developers - period. As such, it's not standard and constantly changing; erronous or missing man pages and other documentation; various commands and options that don't work; a terribly screwed up NFS implementation, to name just a few.
Would I put this in a mission critical role? Hell no. And for anyone who hasn't had to administer systems built by developers... well, let me just say it's a very painful experience.
I'm not bashing developers, but lets face it, they're not concerned about the scalability, infrastructure, standards, long term reliability, maintainability or anything outside of development.
The only way I'd ever use Linux in an important role, is if I built it myself from the ground up, which is the whole point, right? If you don't like it, change it.
Bottom line - there is no comparison.
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