[Gllug] 'MS's biggest blunder, uses Linux and Apache'

[Andrew Farnsworth]

On Fri Aug  1  9:05 , James Laver  sent:
>On 1/8/08 14:04, "Peter Corlett" abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 12:52:33PM +0100, Chris Hutchison wrote:
>>> "MS's biggest blunder, uses Linux and Apache and PHP for its
>>> infrastructure to promote Windows Vista"
>>> http://openmanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/07/mss-blunder-with-mojave-
>>> experiment-uses.html
>> 
>> Hold the presses! Company in "using best tool for the job" shocker!
>> 
>> I'm fairly sure that "hosting a high-volume dynamic web site" is not one of
>> Vista's touted features.
>
>Perhaps not, but they certainly claim the latest version of Windows Server
>is capable of it.

Of course windows server is capable of "hosting a high-volume dynamic web site".
 Of course from direct personal experience I know that for a large UK based
financial institution (purposefully left anonymous) they had to run 38 Windows
web servers split evenly between two data centers to handle their load.  Again
from personal experience, a similar (but different) financial institution handled
a similar load on 4 Sun boxes running Apache backed up by 4 more running tomcat
split across two data centers.  Hmm, 8 machines vs 38...  Admittedly though, they
had 38 servers not just to handle the load, but because the windows boxes had 10%
down at any given time where the Sun boxes just ran.  Remember, this is not
anecdotal evidence, I experienced this personally.

Andy
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