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From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson)
Subject: Re: BSDI vs Win NT and netscape commerce server
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 17:55:28 GMT
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In article <4aoi41$p4r@news.voicenet.com>, 900RR <900RR> wrote:
>jwebster@fox.nstn.ca (jwebster) wrote:
>
>>I have a question.  I am setting up a commernce server and will most
>>likly be useing the netscape commernce server.  A friend of mine 
>>recommended going with BSDI Unix and another friend recommended Win NT.
>
>both recommendations are "right" for today.
>
>However, the decision you make should be based on the following:
>
>1) device support, and stability
>
>if you're trying to build high-end stuff, with exotic hardware (like
>those sexy SMP boards with 4 P5 chips) then Windows NT is the ONLY way
>to go. NT's had SMP support for years. The BSD camps are STILL working
>on it.
>
Hmmm....  There are some *really* big sites using FreeBSD (in order
to be non-partisan, I'll call it *BSD) on a P6 already.  I guess that
there are certain limited applications where you need that much (4 CPUs).
But there might be a tradeoff where the *BSD solution might give you
a better CPU bang for your buck.

>
>also, new hardware boards like PCI 100Mbps ethernet cards, are going
>to be supported under NT well before they will be supported in any
>unix. Maybe not in ALL cases. But if the OEM is writing the driver
>code, you can bet the farm that the focus and effort will be on the NT
>support first, everyone else a (quite distant) second. 
>
*BSD (and probably Linux) already has DEC-chip and Intel 100Mbps E-net
support.

John
dyson@freebsd.org