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Subject: Re: ISP Unix usage
To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:24:04 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199610110232.QAA00388@pegasus.com> from "Richard Foulk" at Oct 10, 96 04:32:31 pm
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> Aloha,  is there a poll or tally somewhere that gives some indication of
> the popularity of the various Unix platforms in use by ISPs as servers?
> 
> I'm most interested in how FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris/SunOS compare.
> 
> Has anyone attempted to do this?

You failed to mention BSDI.  :-)

In my experience:

The people with money to burn buy Suns and run Solaris or SunOS.

The people with less money to burn buy big honkin' PC's and run Solaris 
x86.

The people who do not wish to burn money but want support buy BSDI.
(No, I will not comment on the support issue.)

The people who are interested in a good solution at a low cost tend to
run FreeBSD.

The people who are not too bright run Linux and play "Kernel of the Day".


That is it from a financial point of view :-)  I know that's not a real
answer to your question though.

... JG