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Enterprise Linux: Are We There Yet?

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-towards-it dept.

Simon Crosby writes " Network Computing is running an special report on Linux in the enterprise. It evaluates strengths and weaknesses of Linux useage in the enterprise. It also discusses perceptions, roadblocks, security, clustering and other Linux enterprise issues."

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  1. Re:Lack of Apps by ppetru · · Score: 5, Informative

    While it's true that not all the un*x-based apps have been ported, most of them are there. Examples:

    • Oracle -- which is rock solid, and you can get support contracts from Oracle for the Linux platform (the company I work for uses Oracle/Linux in a mission critical environment and it works just fine).
    • All the other big databases (IBM DB2, Clustra, Informix, Sybase, etc)
    • Lots and lots of movie and animation production tools (Maya, Entropy, etc). Linux is really popular now amongst graphics and movie professionals.

    The list could go on, but you get my point. What's more important are the advantages of Linux: superb development tools, open architecture, world-wide support, and so on.

    On the performance front, it seems that you're not aware of the fact that Solaris (and other unices) scale up so well to high-end boxes at the expense of low-end performance. In case you didn't know it, the Linux kernel smokes away Solaris (in terms of syscall latency, throughput, response time, network performance and a couple other points) on servers with up to 4-8 CPUs.

    --

    Petru
  2. Re:marketing by iBod · · Score: 2, Informative
    IBM with it's Peace Love and Linux campaign has probably done a lot,

    Probably done more harm than good.

    See... San Francisco takes IBM to the cleaners

    I don't think IBM are the marketing geniuses they once were!

  3. Re:Almost There by uslinux.net · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, the kernel is ready, mostly depending on which kernel you use. There are a number of people (myself included) that think the kernels aren't necessarily getting enough testing before release, but if you stay a stable revision or two behind, you're probably in good shape. 2.4.10 is stable, and so far 2.4.16 has been (though I'm sure there will be revisions to it). If you REALLY want something stable, use an -ac kernel - Alan has done an excellent job of making sure these ARE production ready.