[ale] Linux use by ISP

[Brian K. Murphy]

Well, touche....actually I use a sun at my day  job, but my point is that
most ISP's (at least those not the size of MS or EL) have profit margins
that are razor thin if even existant.  Sooooo...for us the cost is a big
factor.  I am probably tilting at windmills...it seems the more I use linux
the more I get that way.  I have been using it off and on for four years..a
lot more on in the last two years.  The more I use it the more fanatical I
get about it.  I work at a MSCP shop and it is almost daily that I get into
some type of "discussion" shall we say about the merits of M$ vs Linux.
But, I have managed to wrestle mail and DNS and DHCP services away from the
M$ beast..  Now all the developers work on NT and 98 and all the servers run
Linux..ain't it great!!

Keith


----- Original Message -----
 From: <scott at certumgroup.com>
To: Brian K. Murphy <bmurphy at powerh.net>; <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Linux use by ISP


> Keith,
>
> I don't disagree that Linux is a great OS. Why else would I be on this
list?
> However, as a long-tine Unix user I can assure you that Sun Solaris has
> users groups. They are obviously mostly commercial, not many people have
Sun
> boxes at home (I do but it is for business). Also, until Intel developed
the
> newer Pentium chips the SPARC chips were much faster than Intel's and
> Solaris is a well-proven and reliable OS.
>
> Scott Hartsell
> The Certum Group, Inc.
> "Connecting You to the World"
> www.certumgroup.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian K. Murphy <bmurphy at powerh.net>
> To: <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 10:08 AM
> Subject: [ale] Linux use by ISP
>
>
> > Just to throw in my two cents, as a small ISP I have been using Linux
for
> > most of our operations since a few months after we started (probably the
> > middle of last year).  I still keep a NT box, but it is only to host IIS
> and
> > Frontpage.  I don't understand why any ISP would pay $$$$ for a what
> amounts
> > to a proprietary Unix box when Linux will do exactly the same thing for
> the
> > cost of the CD.  Not only that, but I have never heard of a Sun users
> > group...and linux groups are popping up all over the place.  I can find
an
> > answer to any esoteric question just by asking a couple of lists.  Oh
> well,
> > maybe I'm missing something and that's why I'm not the size of
Mindspring
> > :).
> >
> > Keith Murphy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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