Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 01:34:06 GMT From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT clusters running MS SQL Message-ID: <38c061e1.786256907@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <MAILPine.BSF.4.21.0003031757220.99206-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <MAILPine.BSF.4.21.0003031757220.99206-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On 3 Mar 2000 13:12:38 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.chat you wrote: >I found some details at TPC's site. yes, the hardware was very >different, but NT and MS SQL Server look like real contenders... >Is there anything we can do to get BSD on this list? >Or is this one of those 'you have to pay to play' games? The fact that MSSQL showed great speeds in a network cluster might mean piss all if you want to build a high availability web server or pop3 server. In terms of those studies, always look to see who commissioned it. Generally, those who pay get what they want. It sounds awful cynical, but my wife having escaped the seedy world of Market research can attest to the fact that there is always pressure to give the answers the clients want to the point where you sometimes are pushed to the point where its an outright lie. I am not saying that this is always the case, or that all firms are like this... But, I am sure SUN can come forth with its own studies that show how its clustering system with Oracle can blow the socks off NT-- especially if the use some of their higher end hardware. In the end, it really doesnt necessarily mean much. Evaluate the technology yourself. See what makes sense for the problem at hand. Maybe its NT. Maybe LINUX, maybe FreeBSD. Remember that the initial cost of hardware and software (the OS) is only one componenet. If your people know jack about UNIX and are all NT experts, can you justify the cost of retraining them to bring them up to speed (or vice versa) ? Maybe, maybe not. Because one app can run 10% faster on NT, does that mean you should choose NT ? What if you can save 30% on administration because the equivalant app on UNIX is more manageable? Scalable ? Stable ? I think hotmail.com which is owned by MS made a good choice for their network. http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.hotmail.com ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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