Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 22, 2003 09:20 AM
Questions 10 and 11 for the home are bad questions. They assume that if its easy to set up that it is hard to administer. Basically, we've found that Linux is both easy to install and setup AND it is easy to administer. The same can be said for low cost and having low effort. The question implies that you can't have it both ways.
We find it low cost to start with, low cost to maintain and low effort. The Linux systems just keep running and running and running like a pink rabbit. The windoze boxes we ran crashed constantly, required constant patches that invaribly broke existing configurations causing us to spend hundreds of hours a year in down time. We couldn't afford to continue using a product that was definitely NOT enterprise quality.
Linux and Solaris X86 solved the problems and we've never looked back. It would cost us too much to change to something new now and we have absolutely no reason to get out of a Linux/Solaris environment. The boxes we have now just don't break. When we do update them, we know our scripts and programs will continue to work.
We don't get hacked, no viruses to worry about (we do use AV software) and a 500 MHz box with 64 MB RAM out performs a 1 GHZ box with 128MB RAM running Windoze XP. Duh, why fix what isn't broken?
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Re:Some of my survey answers
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 22, 2003 09:20 AMWe find it low cost to start with, low cost to maintain and low effort. The Linux systems just keep running and running and running like a pink rabbit. The windoze boxes we ran crashed constantly, required constant patches that invaribly broke existing configurations causing us to spend hundreds of hours a year in down time. We couldn't afford to continue using a product that was definitely NOT enterprise quality.
Linux and Solaris X86 solved the problems and we've never looked back. It would cost us too much to change to something new now and we have absolutely no reason to get out of a Linux/Solaris environment. The boxes we have now just don't break. When we do update them, we know our scripts and programs will continue to work.
We don't get hacked, no viruses to worry about (we do use AV software) and a 500 MHz box with 64 MB RAM out performs a 1 GHZ box with 128MB RAM running Windoze XP. Duh, why fix what isn't broken?
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