RE: What About Price vs. Performance?

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is this from your vast experience with FreeBSD, Joe?  And is it that
same experience where you decided that it runs "crap like Oracle" or
is "SQL-based".

Frankly, perhaps you should refrain from commenting on something that
you've never even tried to do!


On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Joe Pluta wrote:

> I'm not going to waste a lot of time on this, as it's all but pointless.  I
> did read your post.  The parts where you say Unix can outperform the AS/400
> as a LAN server are correct, the points where you say you can write business
> applications on it are not.  FreeBSD has no integrated database, uses crap
> like Oracle, and so will never work as a business logic server.
> 
> That's all I want to say.  Read whatever you want into it.  FreeBSD can
> never support a real enterprise-level business application and an AS/400 can
> (and no, Yahoo is not a real business application, it's a web application -
> different animal).  You like FreeBSD?  Great.  Use it.  Just don't compare
> it to OS/400.  They're different beasts.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 

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