Comment Re:2 questions (Score 1) 786
Only recently are we seeing the real dominace of Linux in ISPs, and that again is partly becuase of IBM and Sun (Cobalt, etc).
Sorry, but that's just ignorant. It's only recently (like the last 5 years) that Windows even existed in the ISP arena. The reason? Before that all Microsoft server platforms were a joke (anyone remember MS DNS from circa '95 when it wouldn't even interoperate with bind reliably?). And rebooting your server to install a new version of XXX doesn't fly too well when you have customers using the box (you can bite me if you think clustering is a good solution to that problem).
Unix has *always* dominated the ISP world, what's changed is the migration from Solaris to *BSD and Linux ... Windows just picked up scraps from people that didn't know better, or had a vested interest in serving the Windows world.
Sorry, but that's just ignorant. It's only recently (like the last 5 years) that Windows even existed in the ISP arena. The reason? Before that all Microsoft server platforms were a joke (anyone remember MS DNS from circa '95 when it wouldn't even interoperate with bind reliably?). And rebooting your server to install a new version of XXX doesn't fly too well when you have customers using the box (you can bite me if you think clustering is a good solution to that problem).
Unix has *always* dominated the ISP world, what's changed is the migration from Solaris to *BSD and Linux
