From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 27 19:52:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC96C37B404 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:52:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6087343F75 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:52:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 786EE526F7; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:22:28 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:22:28 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Message-ID: <20030728025228.GM45069@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="K0mDTbuGRobClnW5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: What does "enterprise" mean? (was: What does "enterpise" mean?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 02:52:33 -0000 --K0mDTbuGRobClnW5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 21 July 2003 at 12:17:31 -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > What does Unix for the enterprise mean to you? Buzzwords. The Shorter Oxford English dictionary describes enterprise as: 1. A design of which the execution is attempted; a piece of work taken in hand; now only, a bold, arduous or dangerous undertaking. 2. Disposition to engage in undertakings of difficult, risk or danger; daring spirit. 3. Management. Take your choice :-) > This morning, on the SCO media teleconference which I participated in[1], > SCO's president (McBride) said "If all [misappropriated Unix source code] > was removed, Linux would have no enterprise use." > > Their "enterprise" definitions mainly cover multi-processor. For example, > they mentioned scaling to 32 processors. > > Does anyone use FreeBSD or NetBSD with many (over four) processors? > > Anyone use NetBSD or FreeBSD with 32 processors? More to the point, does *anybody* use SCO with more than 16 processors? I have a strong suspicion that it doesn't scale nearly as well as Linux. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --K0mDTbuGRobClnW5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/JI/sIubykFB6QiMRArtmAJ9sG9zLvPj5wR/1All9IVplbK9isQCeNcWh 2fxLjzNJAVGMWmsU3xxXNTk= =QW8D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --K0mDTbuGRobClnW5--