Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:40:13 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Owe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_J=F8rgensen?= <oweandre@stud.ntnu.no> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux Message-ID: <20050617214013.GF36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <42B34020.3050203@stud.ntnu.no> References: <20050617210607.GA36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200506172112.j5HLC6U9043819@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> <20050617212125.GC36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <42B34020.3050203@stud.ntnu.no>
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:26:56PM +0200, Owe Andr? J?rgensen wrote.. > 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.. Sure. But that does not mean there are not a lot of UNIX machines carrying high-value financial data in the banking world. What we forgot: there are quite some Tandem boxes too, for things like dealing rooms and ATM networks etc. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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