Richard Troy wrote:
>
> [snip]
> My observation is that we have a real shortage of quality operating
> systems today, and what few exist/remain don't enjoy much market share
> because they're not based on Unix, so they're largely missing out on the
> Open Source activity. What may be worse, young people who don't know any
> better are sometimes told/taught not to bother with anything over five
> years old as it's antiquated so they don't ever find out that things could
> be better - and once were. (Example, anyone who thinks "man pages" are
> great has obviously got a very limited experience from which to base their
> opinion!) ... As a practical matter today we mostly have a choice of
> Windows or some flavor of unix, neither of which are great. That would be
> very different in my opinion if only Unix didn't have this asenine view
> that the choice between a memory management strategy that kills random
> processes and turning that off and accepting that your system hangs is a
> reasonable choice and that spending a measily % of performance in overhead
> to eliminate the problem is out of the question. Asenine, I tell you.
>
> Meanwhile, what Operating Systems ARE _today_ reliable choices upon which
> to run your Postgres datababse engine?
> [snip]
>
<Insert another plug for an OpenVMS port here>
Aside from the fact that HP's upper management don't appear to be aware
of the existance of OpenVMS, it's a system that it hard to find fault
with. On the alpha chip anyway... the Itanium is another story. It would
be a very reliable choice on which to run a high-availability database
As for your young people don't know any better comment... I'm a young 25
years of age, and I know much greener pastures than Weenblows or Unix. ;)
--
Paul Lambert
Database Administrator
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