[A86] Re: ? [OT]
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[A86] Re: ? [OT]
Your statement seems somewhat confused:
you compare an open OS to specific hardware/OS/ and
support services.
It's not that "Linux could not handle it..."
It's largely a matter of where can be obtained
the required level of support.
--- David Phillips <david@acz.org> wrote:
>
> Heh, there's no way Linux could handle anything as
> large as AOL...
>
> I would imagine most of AOL's servers are very large
> Sun boxes running
> Solaris, or are IBM mainframes running AIX (or most
> likely a combination of
> the two).
>
> Sure, AOL might look like it sucks from a user's
> perspective, but when you
> think about the sheer number of users it has to
> handle at one time (probably
> at least 20-50 million), you've got to have a pretty
> impressive setup.
>
> > I wish Steve Case was my father...that way I could
> get into AOL HQ and
> > secretly install Linux on all their servers.
>
>
>
>
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