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Subject: FreeBSD vs other platforms?
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Cc: isp@freebsd.org, ache@nagual.ru (Andrey A. Chernov)
From: "Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.su>
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Hi,

My question is awfully simple and complicated also:

I wonder if anyone in this world collected/tryed to collect statistics on
the world usage of various platforms in networking applications, like, 
providing internet services (www/ftp/dns/dhcp/<insert here>)? Without any
doubt I'd mention, that we're willing to consider *BSD (open, net, free, BSD/OS)
to be one united field of calculations. 

Seems like I have to explain the situation:  as it always happening in pretty
huge ISP on the market, we have two 'technological' platforms, Suns and *BSD.
And as it's always happening, there's confrontation starting between those 
admins of above mentioned platforms, say, for funding, after several years of
successful work on both types of servers/OS's (we're 8 years on the market of
Russian ISP already). 

We are interested to gather (start ourselves)  analysis on the topic of 
_comparison_ (er, how is it spelled? ;-))  on frequency of the usage of 
different OS's/platforms on highly loaded servers, like innd/nntp, httpd,
ftpd, named and other data terminals, like shell access machines...



Thanks, 

-mishania