Brady Hegberg writes:
> Want a database server?  You can either order a copy of Windows Server
> and SQL Server.
> [...]
> Or you can grab that old Pentium 300 gathering
> dust, install Redhat 9, download mySQL or PostGreSQL and
> voila...a couple of hours later you have a servicable database server
> that didn't cost a penny.

MySQL and PosgreSQL are not related to Linux.  You could also run them under
FreeBSD, or under Solaris on a Sun box or under OS X on an Apple box.  MySQL
also runs on Windows.

You should be asking about free software versus Microsoft products.

Also, note that an "old Pentium 300" will not make a comparable database
server to a modern system running SQL Server.  Database servers with a
reasonable amount of data need a lot of memory to be fast.  They also need a
fast CPU to process everything.  Another thing is that the three database
products mentioned have different feature sets and are not directly
comparable.

If you had said mail server, then you would be correct.  The disk is the
bottle neck in a mail server, not the CPU.

-- 
David Phillips <david at acz.org>
http://david.acz.org/


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