I would reccomend Linux w/ Oracle for development purposes. You may want to
install MRTG to monitor systems usage. That will give you a confidence on
what the production platform should be (Solaris/Sparc or Linux/Intel).
I setup the Web development environment using Solaris/Sparc (E250). It is
depressing when the hardware was not used much at all (CPU/Disk/Memory). We
set them up this way since that is what our clients want.
Have you looked at MySQL? In my previous life, unless you need transaction
processing, MySQL would do the job nicely compared to "industrial-strength"
Oracle. What you will be using for scripting? Java? Perl? ...
Bao
-----Original Message-----
From: Wandered Inn [mailto:">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 7:06 PM
To: '">ale@ale.org'
Subject: Re: [ale] Interested in Linux?
Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>
> Interesting, isn't it? For the people on this list, Linux is pretty much
a
> part of everyday life, but for the vast majority of businesses, I feel
safe
> saying it just doesn't exist.
You're right, but all you've got to do is train them. :)
I joined my current organization a little over 3 years ago. Once I got
my hardware, I used partition magic to give me some Linux space and
installed a dual boot of Red Hat. I didn't tell them initially, but
from that point on, I continued to share my views of Linux and NT (the
corporate standard). As the lead developer on a small web team, I was
in the position to make decisions regarding future software (NT server
was already in place on the web server before I took the assignment).
So, rather than opt for M$ IIS, I went with Netscape Fastrack. Later
moved to Netscape Enterprise. Use Perl for cgi. Uwin for decent shell
tools on my NT box.
Three years later, I just received my upgrade hardware. They're
learning. It came with NT preinstalled on a 1.5 gig partition, leaving
me with 8.5 gig to install Linux. Before ordering the hardware, the
tech called me to make sure that the hardware I got would work with
Linux. I was able to choose from a couple of different laptop setups
and video cards. Small steps for a large corporation, but it happens.
I've recently added an Oracle admin/developer to the team and we will be
needing to add additional webservers. Between my new team member and
myself, we've convinced them to go with a Unix server. OS has not been
selected yet. I'm working hard to cover all the angles. It may not end
up being Linux, but it certainly won't be NT.
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Until later: Geoffrey                ">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com
I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
Y2K...
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