From: Stephanie Chung (stepchung@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jul 17 2004 - 18:15:11 EDT
Alison,
"Amen!" You really nailed this issue. I don't
understand why people are crazy about "Linux". They
don't look at the big picture. Linux is not a big deal
after all. I work with HPUX, Linux and Solaris. If my
boss pushes me to go with Linux on our critical
production environment, I will resign before I get
fired. Linux security and support are a huge pain in
the neck. In my 5 years with HPUX, Linux and Solaris,
I got hacked in 36 times on Linux, 14 times on Solaris
and ZERO time on HPUX. “Cheap” is not a
solution. In the long run, “Cheap” will
come back and bite you big time. My comment is
“if you have a good and secured system, stick
with it. Do not change to Linux.”
Stephanie
--- "Ayson, Alison {Info~Palo Alto}"
<alison.ayson@ROCHE.COM> wrote:
> I haven't posted in awhile so I hope "OT" is still
> the right symbol for
> "Off Topic"
>
> I've been an HP-UX administrator for over 10 years
> (some Solaris and SGI
> too, but mostly HP-UX). Lately there has been a big
> push within our
> company to look at Linux, specifically RedHat (AS
> 3.0 and 2.1). It
> seems that everyone wants to jump on the Linux
> bandwagon, but I'm not
> convinced Linux is the all-encompassing solution
> that so many seem to
> think it is.
>
> The biggest motivation for moving to Linux is
> financial (from the
> "higher ups" that is). The hardware is cheaper and
> so is the OS.
> However, it's been my experience--so far at
> least--that what you save in
> hardware and software you quickly use up in Sys
> Admin time. I have
> spent so many hours trying to get a particular
> driver to load, or a
> piece of "freeware" software to compile; something
> that would have taken
> minutes on an HP-UX server. And support from RedHat
> is a joke! The
> quickest response I've gotten so far to a reported
> problem was 72 hours
> (usually it's 2 weeks, one question has been pending
> for 3 months no
> with no response). Luckily we bought 1 year of
> support from HP for one
> of our Linux servers; I can get an answer from HP
> fairly quickly. So far
> we have very few Linux servers so I haven't gotten
> overwhelmed----yet.
> However if I had 20 or so linux servers to maintain,
> and everytime I had
> to make some sort of change to that server I had to
> spend hours
> recompiling the kernel or whatever...the situation
> could quickly become
> a nightmare.
>
> I wondered what some of the other HP Sys Admins out
> there think about
> Linux? Have your experiences been positive or have
> you experienced some
> of the same difficulties.
>
> Thanks for any feedback.
>
> -- Alison Ayson
> Roche Bioscience
> Palo Alto, CA
>
>
>
>
>
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