[CLUE-Talk] Sites with longest running systems by last uptime

[Kevin Cullis]

Jim,

ABSOLUTELY!!!!  Notice that Starbucks "rebooted" their server everyday
until they moved to Windows2000 (http://uptime.netcraft.com/).  From a
quality standpoint, it's good that NT's quality has improved in
Windows2000, but as Dr. W. Edwards Deming stated of the Japanese auto
makers quality versus America's during the 80's, "How can America catch
up to a business which keeps accelerating?"  I see the same with Linux
versus Windblows, how can Microsoft catch up to an OS which keep
accelerating?

As you so importantly pointed out, development is increasing, which is
great for high quality.  When selling quality versus price, ALWAYS point
out quality first, then if quality is on par between two or more
products, the capability and price become the major winning points: you
can't beat FREE!!

You're right on Jim!!!

Kevin

Jim Ockers wrote:
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> I think it's also important to note that the Linux development has been
> blazingly fast over the last few years, and systems that are running
> the same version of Linux for 3 years are rare.  (I have one, a 486 that
> is running Linux 1.2.10, which I used to write this e-mail in fact.)
> 
> However, even that system has been rebooted 5 or 6 times in those 5
> years, due to a motherboard failure, 3 moves, and a couple of extended
> power outages.  [BUT NEVER A SOFTWARE-RELATED CRASH, IN ITS LIFE.]
> 
> Here's its uname, notice when the kernel was last compiled:
> 
> [577] ducktape:/ockers > uname -a
> Linux ducktape 1.2.10 #7 Sat Nov 4 16:31:36 MST 1995 i486
> 
> If I was using this system for serious business I would have upgraded
> its kernel since 1995 since there are so many nifty new features that
> I would want to use which are only recently becoming available in
> the new kernels.  Also, the hardware nowadays is so nifty I probably
> would be using new hardware, if this was for serious business.
> 
> This is not to say that development on *BSD has stagnated, but simply
> that Linux development is revving so quickly that it seems like every
> 6 months it's a whole new OS!!  I would even go so far as to say that
> the rate of development is increasing (accelerating).
> 
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