[PLUG] getting the quote right

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu May 20 16:00:46 UTC 2010


On Thu, 20 May 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> While I hope it's obvious that I have similar partisan sympathies, I'll
> just note that people deploy servers to provide application services, not
> operating systems. If someone's stuck with an application that demands
> Windows -- and lots of third-party apps do; it's not just Exchange and SQL
> Server -- then Windows becomes the server OS of choice.
>
> IOW, I deploy servers to please customers, not to be aligned with Google,
> Yahoo!, or Amazon.

Paul,

   While I can think of exceptions to your statement about operating systems,
your points are well made. I wonder if there are data (carefully researched
or empirical and anecdotal) about running those Windows apps in a virtual
machine on a linux server.

A curious mind,

Rich



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