“Serious e-businesses can trust their sites only to
RISC-based Unix servers. That statement has bordered on dogma for
IT professionals building out Web infrastructures.”
“Then along comes search engine Google.com and explodes the myth
by basing its entire network-now at 4,000 servers and counting-on
no-name PCs running Linux. Google is no small-potatoes operation;
it’s one of the most computationally intensive sites you’ll
find.”
“Google’s rationale: Whatever it loses in functionality or
robustness it can make up in cost savings, programming flexibility,
economy of space and ease of maintenance.”