[Gllug] Voluntary work

[Bernard Peek]

In message <p0521060cbbda4fd54ee5@[192.168.216.2]>, Gordon Joly 
<gordon.joly at pobox.com> writes

>>
>>What offices need is a system that has all of the advantages of 
>>Windows in addition to the advantages of Linux.
>
>
>Indeed. That is very realistic.
>
>>When I was running an all Windows site I got a little tired of people 
>>telling me that Linux was so much better. They kept telling me that 
>>Linux was more efficient. What they meant was that it used fewer 
>>processor cycles. I didn't care because processor-cycles are cheap. It 
>>was cheaper for me to buy another Windows server than to spend time 
>>thinking about Linux.
>
>
>Samba 3.x outperforms Windows Server 2003 by 50%, reported elsewhere.

Yes, that's the sort of argument I was getting tired of. I understood 
the argument and accepted that as a fact. It still didn't justify 
putting in a Linux system.

I had one web server. If I needed to add 50% more horsepower I could 
have installed Linux. Or I could buy another server. The cost of a new 
server was approximately the same as my daily charge-out rate. So if it 
took me more than a day to learn and install Linux and copy the web-site 
across then I couldn't justify it.

In fact I went away and learned Linux on my own time. Installing a Linux 
server didn't become economically viable until I had spent perhaps 
£50,000 worth of my own time on it.



-- 
Bernard Peek
London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author. Will work for money.


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