| Patrick J. Gleason  2001-11-12 19:18:04
 |  I design, code and test extreme high
end wed servers using OS/2 (currently
 Warp Server for e-Business and eCS).
 These are multi-threaded, session
 oriented web servers that provide
 access to large databases, and each
 one is highly tailored to the needs of
 a specific customer.  If you are going
 to run Linux, you might as well run
 Windows NT/2000 because Windows NT
 is nothing more than the old DOS
 Windows running on SCO Xenix as its
 base operating system instead of
 MS-DOS.  Linux and Windows NT both
 suffer from the traditional
 klunkiness associated with their UNIX
 origins.  We can't use them for what
 I do because we need an operating
 system kernel that is specifically
 optimized to the hardware architecture
 of the CPU to get the kind of
 performance that we need; that is,
 serving one to five million web pages
 per day from each Athlon 550.
 Granted, each web server I build costs
 about $250,000 and takes two man-years
 to construct, but for some businesses,
 this is a small price compared to the
 profits they reap by doing it.
 
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| Eugene Gorbunoff  2001-11-12 23:09:14
 |  add this text in Sladshot site :) |