Re: Caldera Network Desktop (was:Re: SMP & threads for SQL queries)

Posted in 1996

Keith Smith — Tue, 01 Oct 96 11:59:09 EDT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

H.S. Prasad 4-8398 (hprasad) wrote: > > You mentioned that a lot of big shops are running the stable versions of > linux. Does any body have any information like what is it used for - > desktops or servers. What kinds of databases are they running on these? > Obviously not Sybase or Oracle or Informix. Neither, Running as a multi-user platform with dumb terminals. Make that 20 distinct boxes, running Basis BBx 2,3 & 4, custom apps, UUCP, E-mail. _I_ don't call a multi-user machine a 'server' per se, although nothing prevents a multi-user machine from being a _network_ server too. -- Keith Smith <keith@ksmith.com> Free Usenet News/Newsfeeds Digital Designs (910) 423-7389/7391 [V.34] PO Box 85 Hope Mills, NC 28348-0085 ... Somewhere in the Styx of North Carolina ...