15 Dec
2000
15 Dec
'00
1:28 p.m.
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Jim Strickland wrote:
And as for reliability, let me draw my line in the
sand and say that I think
using PCs for mission critical servers is not a good idea. Even if you put
a decent OS on them - Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc, they're not designed or
supported the way a real mini or mainframe is. 'course the flip side is you
can keep another machine around for a spare for a reasonable cost...
Putting a few PCs together into a scalable robust cluster is the basis for
quite a bit of mission critical stuff these days. I think even IBM is
starting to get it:
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99039.ecsuperlinux.htm
Here's some info on the linux high availability project:
http://linux-ha.org/
-- Doug