Re: SMP & threads for SQL queries

In article <322CA463.549E@segel.com>, Mike Segel <mikey@segel.com> wrote: | Linux is good for a home hobby system. Like FreeBSD. | But to risk a business on it? Risk how? That you would risk profit from controlling costs. | You would be better off getting a real OS like Solaris. | Or even (ick!) SCO. SUpport 'em both. SCO has been less trouble. | | Then run a real database like Informix. I love people like you. They buy top price commercial stuff, pay me to install it, and have to pay me to run it because they can't justify the $1k or so to buy all the manuals you will ever need. | Yeah, you can do some hacks to get it to work, but its like | buying a used bus held together with bailing wire. The money | you save up front, you spend in repairs. | | Just my $.02. Cheap as half the price. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "As a software development model, Anarchy does not scale well." -Dave Welch