Linked by Tim H. on Tue 16th Mar 2004 21:14 UTC
What is the current status of operating systems as far as web hosting goes? Here is a quick run down:
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Even though Dell is the most zealous (and one of the last still standing) wintel advocates and gets the best prices from its parental companies it is not the only option out there. Most people do not realise that they can build better and cheaper x86 peecees easily or even trust companies with better support and history at the enterprise.
If you want the ultimate combination and are prepared to pay the money you would be fool not to go Sun/Solaris. If you want just the best hardware, IBM PPC family is the one to get but you are stuck with Linux.