From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 30 5:57:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from fellspt.charm.net (fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5708214FF6 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 05:57:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dutch@charm.net) Received: from charm.net ([209.143.115.138]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA11892 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:57:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <377A1428.4145F218@charm.net> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:57:12 -0400 From: Dutch Collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A second thought about TP & Unix Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Keep in mind I have not read the BSD kernel, yet. This is half rant. One must keep in mind that most Transaction Processing (TP) is done by 'the big OSs'- VMS and IBM AS machines. Is FreeBSD or Inc. (BSDI) doing anything to break into this market? Here is food for thought. I heard that USPS (I was there - retired software engr. now) went to Linux. Well, that is a leap because most of the work is done by imbedded OS and/or a bunch of different OSs with PDP-11s and RSX-11 doing the work on a lot of machines. I don't want to get on a rant here (sorry to Dennis Miller) - but reentrant kernel problems used to kill the time it takes to process a bar-code. Time in milliseconds and in microseconds in the case of multi processors means everything. I just do not see either NT or Linux doing a very good job in TP. Well, Linux has the Open Source Code and someone will get to redesign the kernel. Microsoft is not going to give anyone but microsoft source code. Now,where is FreeBSD in this kind of political fight? If the kernel is fully reentrant and events are interrupt driven, not polled, then why is it (freeBSD) floating in limbo? Marketing. In the above example, Linux won and FreeBSD didn't for that reason. Ok, I am out of steam on this. Remember, a bad product will win over a good product if the marketing plan is better and faster. If I was to operate an e-commerce site I would not trust NT to work well or cheaply. So, I my have been vague with the above example but time is money. It always boils down to who can move the most bits the fastest and cheapest. If you want to move bits then chose the OS with care, not "I believe". =dutch Sorry can't tell about the way reentrant problems were fixed. They will sue me (kill?) -- +------------------------------------------------------+ | If you want to make god laugh - tell him your plans. | | Kim Basinger | | Voice Line: 410.922.5805 | +------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message