If americans are going to shove globalisation down the worlds throat, offshoring is one of the bitter pills we're going to have to swallow.
Oh, and btw, I bet the computer you typed your post up on was made in the far east.
Solaris is light years beyond linux for big SMP systems. In case you didn't notice, linux added NUMA support and usable threads (NPTL) in kernel 2.6: i.e. Virtualization in Linux is totally primitive compared to solaris, and for that matter, the other unices in the server space (e.g. AIX and HP/UX). NUMA, kernel threads, and virtualization are necessary for big (e.g. 64 way) boxes. To summarize, previous to kernel 2.6, linux was useless on big servers (and 2.6 was relatively recently added to Red Hat's and Novell's Enterprise Linux Distros, and turned out to be slower than 2.4)
I'm a linux fan, but what bothers me is that the Linux community is so full of fanatics who can't even see linuxe's weeknesses. Linux is way behind other distros and has a lot of catching up to do before it will come even close to the major server vendors - HP/UX, AIX, and Solaris have had mature NUMA, real kernel threads, and virtualization implementations years before they even alphaed in linux.
BTW, of all the unices aside from linux, solaris is definitely the most comfortable and most open. I don't understand why linux zealots bash solaris: take a look at AIX or HP/UX and you know immediately what I mean. Sun is definitely the "good guy" in the Unix world.
You should atleast read the referenced article before posting.
If you were to read the article, it would be clear that this is being sold in to the HPC (i..e grid/cluster computing) market. The referenced customer was talking about deploying this in a 512-node cluster.
In HPC environments, 300 bucks a node is peanuts. And of course they have fiber-optic interconnects.
You should atleast read the article before posting. If you were to read the article, it would be clear that this hardware is being sold into HPC (High-Performance-Computing, i.e. grid/cluster computing) market.
For HPC, 500 bucks a node is peanuts, and it exceeds the outermost bounds of absurdity to compare this to the prices of commodity hardware.
+1 I agree. Patching windows is far more comfortable than patching linux.
The linux zealots are absurd regarding the PNG issue: buffer overflow in linux libpng was discovered a little while ago - exact same problem. Linux is just as vulnerable to buffer overflows as windows (until all distros use add execshield by default).
The linux zealots need only enter the following in google: site:http://www.cert.org/advisories/ linux And they'll get quite a few results.
I use suse, and patching is much easier than with other distros, but still nowhere as comfortable as windows.
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If americans are going to shove globalisation down the worlds throat, offshoring is one of the bitter pills we're going to have to swallow. Oh, and btw, I bet the computer you typed your post up on was made in the far east.
I'm a linux fan, but what bothers me is that the Linux community is so full of fanatics who can't even see linuxe's weeknesses. Linux is way behind other distros and has a lot of catching up to do before it will come even close to the major server vendors - HP/UX, AIX, and Solaris have had mature NUMA, real kernel threads, and virtualization implementations years before they even alphaed in linux.
BTW, of all the unices aside from linux, solaris is definitely the most comfortable and most open. I don't understand why linux zealots bash solaris: take a look at AIX or HP/UX and you know immediately what I mean. Sun is definitely the "good guy" in the Unix world.
If you were to read the article, it would be clear that this is being sold in to the HPC (i..e grid/cluster computing) market. The referenced customer was talking about deploying this in a 512-node cluster.
In HPC environments, 300 bucks a node is peanuts. And of course they have fiber-optic interconnects.
You should atleast read the article before posting. If you were to read the article, it would be clear that this hardware is being sold into HPC (High-Performance-Computing, i.e. grid/cluster computing) market. For HPC, 500 bucks a node is peanuts, and it exceeds the outermost bounds of absurdity to compare this to the prices of commodity hardware.
+1
I agree. Patching windows is far more comfortable than patching linux.
The linux zealots are absurd regarding the PNG issue: buffer overflow in linux libpng was discovered a little while ago - exact same problem. Linux is just as vulnerable to buffer overflows as windows (until all distros use add execshield by default).
The linux zealots need only enter the following in google:
site:http://www.cert.org/advisories/ linux
And they'll get quite a few results.
I use suse, and patching is much easier than with other distros, but still nowhere as comfortable as windows.