Earlier today Gavin said:

> The Linux world is so much more interesting than other Unix
> flavors right now, and just in the last few months even it has started
> to look *really* viable, and not just as a server OS. .......
>
> Just the thought of being able to build real and robust business
> solutions using *nothing* but *free* software is quite intoxicating.

.....  and once amazon.com said *they* were moving to Linux, seems
like in choosing between Linux and HP-UX, Sun, et. al "proprietary
UNIX", IT managers now have a pretty good answer to one question;
i.e.:   "If amazon.com can do it, so can we.....".


Interesting "lego" analogy...


> In MPE it's the high-level stuff that is simple, and the low-level stuff
> that's complex.  In Unix, it's the low-level stuff that's simple and the
> high-level stuff that's complex.
> .....
> The pace at which Linux is improving and the rate at which high-
> quality "free" (both as in speech and in beer) software is being
> produced is just amazing.  Linux now has available several
> "journaled" file systems (similar to MPE's Transaction Manager)
> and we're probably just about to the point where the free database
> people (PostgreSQL, etc.) start talking to the file system people
> about doing explicit transactions between the database and file
> system, .....

I don't claim to begin to understand all the details that would have to
be addressed, but more and more I like the sound of being able to
run both MPE and Linux on a partitioned dual-processor IA-64 box;
if only the MPE IA-64 Translator can be finished....

Ken Sletten

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