Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:33:25 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEJMFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <651762877.20050301124338@wanadoo.fr>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Anthony > Atkielski > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 3:44 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? > > > Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > > > Do you always buy new cars? New homes? > > Yes. And new PCs. > > > If you were tasked with going out and buying Windows server hardware > > and you had a maximum of $200 to spend, you would be pretty stupid to > > go down to Fry's and get one of their $199 on-sale computers when you > > could go spend the $200 on a used HP server that cost $9000 when it > > was new and has a full set of SCSI disks in it and probably a > > tapedrive. Sure the HP server is slow - but in that environment the > > reliability is more important than the speed. > > But at least I could be reasonably sure that Windows would be able to > use the machine. I can't be that confident with other operating > systems. > You can't be that confident that the other operating systems will work on the new hardware, either. Ted
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