Open source programs in general suck pretty bad also. Here are some
loose facts regarding why projects like Linux, PHP, MYSQL, and
other open source programs suck:
- Linux is simply a clone of an operating system over 20 years
old similar to DOS (Unix). That's ALL Linux is. The kernal was taken,
decompiled, and stolen by Linus himself. That's a fact. Xerox
should have sued, but at the during the early 1991, no one was
really using Unix and Xerox had better things to do with their
recources than to sue someone steeling something what Xerox
doesnt care about. (ie: You can download lots of old games online
that were sold in stores, but these companies don't
care cause these games were in the past and don't currently make
them money so they really don't care what happens to them).
- Other open source project are MySQL, PHP, Perl, Apache, Mozilla..
These are key components of business such as web serving and database.
When Microsoft was smaller (around mid 90's), these products killed
Microsoft in performance and usablility. They were
the top choice for services and MS had crappier versions of the
same thing which no one liked or used.
- Eventually, Microsoft grew in money and power. They came out
with new OS's like Windows 2000 and then things began to change.
MS's SQL Server 2000 started beating out Oracle, IBM DB2,
and MySQL is speed and performance. People started to notice
this and began to migrate over to SQL Server 2000. Remeber that
business and the world are based off these 4 databases.
- iis 5.0 and ASP was realeased in 2000 and once again, the
benchmarks smoked competition. They *killed* Java, and beat out
PHP. An independant magazine developed identicle e-Commerce
web sites (like this) in PHP, asp, and JSP.
JSP - 17 pages per second.
PHP - 54 pages per second
asp - 80 pages per second (and with acceleated code and compression
was up to 160 pages)
Companies around that time popped up to push for Linux. One was
Red Hat Linux. This was a serious effort to make an OS to compete
with Microsoft Windows. Poeple poured millions into Red Hat stock.
Cause at that time, ALL high tech companies where hot.
Remember, Red Hat is GNU. Thus, they have to give you their
source code on each product given away or sold. In reality, their
products were being sold at future shop for profit and i assure you,
their lawyears would be coming after you if you compiled their code
and sold it for profit.
Fact is, Red Hat turned out to be a very poor, slow OS. It had many
features, but they simply didn't work (ie: their plug and play).
Star Office emerged and turned out to be a very buggy, poor,
and *extremely* slow Office suite.
By 2000+ and XP, Microsoft IIS 6.0 and .NET, Microsoft is now
killing *any* open source project in performance, reliability, and
ease of use. Oracle recently announced that you may NOT
publish benchmarks if you use their product. (that's because they
know they are now the slowest database).
Recently at a yearly hacking/sercurtiy confrence, contestants entered
and people over the week would try to hack into the
servers. One was Microsoft running IIS 6.0. There were over
80,000 hack attempts and not one person could get in. They
won. Linux based systems were hacked into instantly.
However, Red Hat. BSD, Linux does have Apache. And they also
have one very, very, important thing going for them to make them a
good choice for dB and web services: -> They are NOT Microsoft.
??? you ask?
Well, once you get to speak to network admins all day like I do,
there is a *good* reason to go the BSD, Linux route. There is
one thing that keeps these poorer, slower OS's and services alive
and used in the industry:
Viruses don't work on them.
