Posted by: Administrator
on February 13, 2007 01:30 AM
I agree the article makes certain assumptions of the reader's being technically savvy on IBM big iron hardware. The concepts are all there and as you saw other readers have done a little research to see what was really going on. If it had to be my guess Nationwide was not going to give SPECIFIC details of its architecture. Wether it was 400 virtual CPUs or 4000. It is an insurance agency banking billions of dollars and still want to protect the security of the company's investments. They obviously have a heterogeneous network based on both *nix and Windows servers. The IBM zSeries does only Linux virtualization as far as I know and so virtualizing Windows would require going to Intel based CPUs and VMWare to utilize the idle CPU time that is wasted.
As far as the article you mentioned, "mom and pop shops" as you put it. I think it is a great article that shows some proof that it doesn't take a multi-billion dollar company to successfully use open source software to start up or run a business. The company I work for doesn't make billions but its not a mom and pop either. I have my success stories and I have had my pitfalls with Linux as well as Windows. There are lots of people out there who have some ideas but don't know where to get started. The article helps spark ideas and thought.
I guess it would be easier to bash someone for their efforts as an editor on an article that doesn't suite you. I would also suppose you sit down with the news paper and read every article and bash all the articles that have no interest to you. Most people just skip them. I personally skip to the funnies first. Just my two cents.
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Re:Excellent - Almost
Posted by: Administrator on February 13, 2007 01:30 AMAs far as the article you mentioned, "mom and pop shops" as you put it. I think it is a great article that shows some proof that it doesn't take a multi-billion dollar company to successfully use open source software to start up or run a business. The company I work for doesn't make billions but its not a mom and pop either. I have my success stories and I have had my pitfalls with Linux as well as Windows. There are lots of people out there who have some ideas but don't know where to get started. The article helps spark ideas and thought.
I guess it would be easier to bash someone for their efforts as an editor on an article that doesn't suite you. I would also suppose you sit down with the news paper and read every article and bash all the articles that have no interest to you. Most people just skip them. I personally skip to the funnies first. Just my two cents.
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