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Hastings Research: Selling Unix to Suits: Talking the talk, so they take the walk

“Further down this page is a brief talk that convinced some
corporate types to decide on Unix servers instead of NT. As it
happens, it was Linux boxes we were selling them on. So why
“Selling Unix …” instead of “Selling Linux …”? In part, that’s
because I’m not a Linux evangelist. FreeBSD works for me too. I
mainly want to avoid NT boxes…”

“You can run a web site on NT. Many do. But the cost is high.
You pay for a lot of support, and you lose money every two weeks
when it crashes. The truth is that Microsoft software isn’t robust
enough for the Internet. In fact, the Internet doesn’t run on
Microsoft stuff at all; it runs on Unix servers, on Apache server
software, on TCP/IP transmission protocols, and on Sendmail —
which is how you received your email today.”

The Internet was originally built to survive nuclear war.
In the guts of the Internet, there’s no MS anything. MS isn’t
robust enough for the Internet.

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