[Coco] OT Linux question

[Dave Kelly]

Seems I remember hearing Microsoft bought out Linspire.

On 03/21/2013 06:35 AM, John Donaldson wrote:
> 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
> AB8YZ
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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
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>> 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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