Re: freakin' frustrated

Pez D Spencer wrote:

man, i just don't like linux...i hate linux with a passion that most
people reserve for disdain of microsoft.

I was similarily skeptical. We used to be an HP house and all the stuff that we do now was done under HPUX. But a few years ago we had a contract where the solution was a large number (hundreds) of single-board computers running some kind of Unix. The licensing fees for HPUX would have made our bid uncompetitive, so we ported our code to Linux and hoped for the best. We left HPUX on the main servers controlling the SBCs. Turned out to be way more solid than we expected, and so our next project we did the main servers in Linux too and haven't looked back. We can be way more competitive on bids using PC-style servers than we were with HP's overpriced hardware and ridiculous licensing fees (20K per target if memory serves).

Neil
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