FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Fri Jun 17 21:47:34 GMT 2005
Javier Henderson wrote:
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
[ ... ]
>> Yes. Go and visit the London City and check their computer rooms.
>> You will be surprised about the number of UNIX boxes. You don't
>> think IBM, HP, Sun etc sell their UNIX machines just to ISPs or..?
>
> But are those Unix servers actually processing bank transactions and
> holding customer accounts?
Some of 'em, sure. They tended to use a lot of Sun Exxxx or HP Apollo 9000
boxen. They also used Unix boxes a lot for trading system/forecasting, often
using inhouse software development and a bit of outside consulting. At one
point, SBC had over 3000 NeXT systems there.
[ I worked at a company which developed and deployed NEXTSTEP software for the
various big banks in Chicago, FNBC, SBC, UBS, and the CBX (commodity exchange).
ITS, run by a guy called Ted Shelton. ]
--
-Chuck
PS: You'd be surprised at how many ATMs and POS machines are running IBM's OS/2....
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