[Coco] OT Linux question

[John Donaldson]

A few years ago, I was asked to take over for the SysAdm when he went in for 
bypass surgery. We were using Windows 2003 Servers which I have to either fix or 
reboot at least once a day. I had my own network back in Engineering that used 
Linux RedHat Servers. The reason I used Linux was these were Medical Image 
Servers and the customers demanded them. I had a couple of spare servers, so one 
day I wheeled one up to the front office server room. Over the next few days I 
created accounts, copied files and data over to the Linux server. Then one 
morning I came in early and switched the entire company over to the Linux 
server. I closed the door and went back to Engineering. The sysAdm came back to 
work six weeks later.  It was a week after he came back to work before he 
noticed the change and none of the rest of the company even noticed the change. 
Over 90% of the commercial servers now use Linux with Window Virtual Servers 
running under the Linux. We have one Linux server here that has five Window 
Virtual Servers running on it. Kinda like have your cake and eating it too. LOL

John
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From: Marc Charbonneau <timebandit001 at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, March 20, 2013 2:50:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] OT Linux question

>I bet even Microsoft uses it extensively, but are keeping tight-lipped
about it (that, or they have a large backroom of monkeys whose only job is
to regularly reboot their servers).

Microsoft.com's DNS points to akamai so it's resolved on Linux. Windows
update is served by akamai, so it's apache on Linux. Skype's super-nodes
are Linux servers.

Beside, all the world stock-exchanges run on Linux. If it's good enough for
them, it's good enough for me :c)

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