They didn't work for Sun, per se. They mostly do hosting and they do it on
Soalris. Granted, I am unaware of how tight they are with Sun, but as with
all advice, it has to be taken with a grain of salt.
Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Wolfe" <steve@iboats.com>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] web programming
> > As far as perl goes, I know some web develoeprs for a consulting firm
that
> > use Solaris and they are pretty tight in the industry. Their advice to
me
> > was that if I already don't know Perl, don't learn it.
>
> You expect anything different from a Sun representative?
>
> One of our competitors sunk well over a million bucks into Sun/Oracle
> hardware, and thought they'd be "cutting-edge" by doing all of their
> back-end programming in Java. The end result is that our $20,000 cluster
> using Linux, Postgres, and Perl out-performs their setup by a very
> significant factor, and also has a greater potential for scalability.
It's
> also a lot easier for us to find programmers than they can, and we turn
out
> new products faster than they do.
>
> steve