<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/5 gordon dunlop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:astrozubenel@googlemail.com">astrozubenel@googlemail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/5 Iain Barnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iainspeed@gmail.com" target="_blank">iainspeed@gmail.com</a>></span><div class="im"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br><br>Surely, without knowing the cause of the downtime or his sources, this counts as Linux FUD (ooh, Windows will break, can't tell you why it broke here, but my mates who run the nix servers at the LSE blame Windows... ) *yawn*<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div> </div></div><div>Unfortunately pcworld reproduced an article by a well known and respected Linux journalist without including his links. Here is the original article with links:<br></div></div>
</blockquote><div><br>I know who he is, I just think he's writtne a shit article, even with the links, which also _still_ don't back up the performance differences he's thrown in. That sort of stuff should be standard in a tech article. He'd probably argue it was "just" a blog post. If he read some benchmarks somewhere then copy and paste - how difficult is that?<br>
<br>I got far more insight from the comments on slashdot - even though amongst them there are always plenty of zealots, fanboys, bullshitters and plenty who don't know anything - there were some very interesting ones. Pity most stay anonymous.<br>
<br><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/03/1216250/London-Stock-Exchange-To-Abandon-Windows?from=rss">http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/03/1216250/London-Stock-Exchange-To-Abandon-Windows?from=rss</a><br><br>
I've never subscribed to the the "I like X because of all these good reasons, but it would seem even better if I added a load of shit reasons too" school of thought. If Windows or .Net or whatever was the cause of the outage and all the problems then that is fine, I want to know. And _why_. If there's a good Linux platform that is fast and stable, then I want to know. And _how_. Anything else is about as much use as 10 minutes spent chatting to the Jehovah's Witnesses on my doorstep. And then some Mormons turn up. With Richard Dawkins in tow.<br>
<br>Iain<br><br></div></div><br>