Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:26:56 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Owe_Andr=E9_J=F8rgensen?= <oweandre@stud.ntnu.no> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux Message-ID: <42B34020.3050203@stud.ntnu.no> In-Reply-To: <20050617212125.GC36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20050617210607.GA36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200506172112.j5HLC6U9043819@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> <20050617212125.GC36959@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:12:06PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote.. > >>Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> writes: >> >> >>>If you give me $5 per Unix system found there I can retire here and now. >> >>For financial transaction processing, and the customer's accounts? > > > Yes. Go and visit the London City and check their computer rooms. > You will be surprised about the number of UNIX boxes. You don't > think IBM, HP, Sun etc sell their UNIX machines just to ISPs or..? > > >>I hope it's not my bank.. > > > It might very well be your bank.. > > I'm sorry to say it, but there is a lot of mainframes a quite few unix boxes in the central accounting and transfer departments. remember that there are a shitload of Cobol Mainframes that are still used by a lot of banks..
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