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/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list