Linux logging (Score 1)

If the Author in the WSJ really means logging in the /var/adm... sense, then he is wrong. It is more likely that he's talking about process checkpointing and other features that can be found on some systems ( Tandems being at the top of the list )

This means that the core image of a process is kept on disk, so if the processor fails, then it migrates to another one and carries on. This is cool stuff. We have had processors melt down on Tandem's and they *still* keep going. You shut it down sometime later, and replace the board. Meantime, your mission critical system just takes a (np-1)/np performance hit.

The top end Sun machines have this sort of capability now ( I think ), but I'm not sure the Linux SMP can do these kind of wonders yet.
That's not to say that it can't, just that it doesn't. And until it does, its unlikely that people will be betting their ATM networks on Linux. They'll be sticking with their Sun's, Tru64s and Tandems.

Not that WindowsNT is much of a competitor in this market anyway.

I would, of course, be happy to work on this if someone is willing to donate a 6+ processor E4500 to play with :)