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Mindbridge Saves "Bunches of Money" In Switch To Linux
While Mindbridge didn't start out as an open source company, it has since managed to save what they can only describe as "bunches of money" by switching to Linux. "Today, Mindbridge has repurposed itself as an open-source-friendly company, and revamped its infrastructure to run completely on Linux and other open source software. 'Having deployed [Linux servers] to our customers, we turned around and said, we can do the same thing internally and save bunches of money. We began a systematic but slow flipping of servers from the Microsoft world over to predominantly Linux — although there are a few BSD boxes around as well,' Christian says. 'It's to the point that today I only have two production Windows servers left, out of 15 or so.'"
Not implying it... stating it. It's a fact. Windows does file level security far better (which is to say, at all), and network security is non-existant with Linux. It's just a bunch of stuff on a machine, and you go to different machines for different stuff. Completely ad hoc.
No FUD, only educated experience.
Nice, but it does not eliminate some of the underlying design problems that make NTFS rather slow and inefficient as a server level file system.
- no journaling to speak of. A power outage can eat or corrupt unsaved data.
- it fragments files (heck, even metadata gets fragmented!)
- no symlinks and other special files.
But even with a modern file system, it would still be a resource hog on any server, because it cannot run without a GUI.
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