Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:43:38 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? Message-ID: <651762877.20050301124338@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEJHFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <161986048.20050228205351@wanadoo.fr> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEJHFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > Do you always buy new cars? New homes? Yes. And new PCs. > If you were tasked with going out and buying Windows server hardware > and you had a maximum of $200 to spend, you would be pretty stupid to > go down to Fry's and get one of their $199 on-sale computers when you > could go spend the $200 on a used HP server that cost $9000 when it > was new and has a full set of SCSI disks in it and probably a > tapedrive. Sure the HP server is slow - but in that environment the > reliability is more important than the speed. But at least I could be reasonably sure that Windows would be able to use the machine. I can't be that confident with other operating systems. -- Anthony
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