Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

On 27 Jun 2001, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:

> Alex Knight <knight@phunc.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Lamar Owen wrote:
> >
> > > On Wednesday 27 June 2001 16:15, Alex Knight wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > > > > Disagreed over here, with 4+ years of experience 24x7 on RHL since RHL
> > > > > 4.1.
> > >
> > > > This 4+ years 24/7 experience isn't on that server you said was for
> > > > internal purposes with low load you mentioned in a previous post, is it?
> > >
> > > No.  This one has been streaming our RealAudio stream 24x7 since May 1, 1997
> > > (minus a few hours for maintenance -- you know, things like replacing failed
> > > power supplies, replacing/installing hard drives, upgradingthe OS, etc.
> > > Still running the same Super Micro dual PPro 200 motherboard -- but 192MB now
> > > instead of the 64MB we started with.  ECC, of course. Will be replacing with
> > > the 'lightly loaded' PIII-600 w/ 1GB as soon as Real Networks supports kernel
> > > 2.4.) -- along with mail, DNS, and seven domains worth of webservice.  Not
> > > terribly heavy loaded -- but we can and do saturate our T1.
> >
> > Even though it may appear that your server is doing a lot, it's not facing
> > the load of a highly scaled enterprise level e-commerce site, where RedHat
> > just doesn't cut it.
>
> That claim is bogus. Red Hat Linux is the number one linux by far in
> enterprise deployments.
>
> --
> Trond Eivind Glomsrød
> Red Hat, Inc.

Trond,

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-Knight