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Date:      Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:55:14 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Javier Henderson <javier@kjsl.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us>, uzi@bmby.com, Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux
Message-ID:  <20050617215514.GB37494@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <42B3450A.3020109@kjsl.com>
References:  <20050617210607.GA36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200506172112.j5HLC6U9043819@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> <20050617212125.GC36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <42B34018.2040604@kjsl.com> <20050617214208.GG36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <42B3450A.3020109@kjsl.com>

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On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:47:54PM -0700, Javier Henderson wrote..
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:26:48PM -0700, Javier Henderson 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..?
> >>
> >>But are those Unix servers actually processing bank transactions and 
> >>holding customer accounts?
> >
> >
> >Why not?   As an aside:  what do you think telecom operators run their
> >main billing systems on?  UNIX... 
> 
> I'm sure some do. Others run theirs on VMS.

Most run Tru64.  Not a lot run VMS.  We had stock exchanges run VMS.
Like the Dutch Stock Exchange and the Australian one for example.  

> >Any idea what downtime costs per hour on those systems?  
> 
> A lot.
> 
> -jav
> 
> 
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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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