RE: What About Price vs. Performance?

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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