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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call
To: mbligh@aracnet.com (Martin J. Bligh)
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 16:59:55 +0000 (GMT)
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> OK, I predict that Linux will take over the whole of the high end server
> market ... if people stop complaining about us fixing scalability. That
> should give some nicer numbers ....

Extending the useful life of current hardware will shift profit even
further towards support contracts, and away from hardware sales.

Imagine the performance gain a webserver serving mostly static
content, with light database and scripting usage is going to see
moving from a 2.4 -> 2.6 kernel?  Zero copy and filesystem
improvements alone will extend it's useful life dramatically, in my
opinion.

John.
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