On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Jim Strickland wrote:
> And as for reliability, let me draw my line in the sand and say that I think
> using PCs for mission critical servers is not a good idea. Even if you put
> a decent OS on them - Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc, they're not designed or
> supported the way a real mini or mainframe is. 'course the flip side is you
> can keep another machine around for a spare for a reasonable cost...
Putting a few PCs together into a scalable robust cluster is the basis for
quite a bit of mission critical stuff these days. I think even IBM is
starting to get it:
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99039.ecsuperlinux.htm
Here's some info on the linux high availability project:
http://linux-ha.org/
-- Doug
Received on Fri Dec 15 2000 - 13:28:34 GMT