261. Jon
January 7, 1999
jsellers@manatee.brev.lib.fl.us
India has incredible technical talent and a relatively poor population. Linux allows you to apply that talent to an affordable (free) product for the population. Everybody wins.
1. Linux or *BSD is the best to get started with under light to moderate loads. SMP is poor but will improve with the new kernel. Linux is growing much faster than Windows NT or any version of Unix.
2. If things take off, go with IBM AIX or Solaris. Both will scale to whatever level you need, and require minimal retraining from Linux.
3. Unix has been around for 30 years, and continues to grow rapidly.
4. Windows NT is very immature, has licensing headaches, poor SMP and scheduling, doesn't scale and is expensive. It would be a stupid decision for use by an ISP.
5. Windows NT has a much better selection of video games than any version of *nix. Use it for that. However, as an American, if you select NT - thanks for the money and jobs!!

 260. Sachin
January 7, 1999
sachin_pawaskar@hotmail.com
Hello all,
Excuse me for making this opinion long and too technical but could not prevent myself from expressing it. I think for a national level ISP who can afford the hardware and software costs, Unix is a better bet. It can be clustered charmingly, gives more scalability moreover it is an enterprise operating system. Anyone who has worked with Unix would definitely have this opinion. It is difficult to set up the OS and the softwares but once this initial hard time is over, there is nothing stable like Unix. If I have millions and wants to go national level ISP I will definitely go for Unix. Now, the second level ISPs can go for the Linux operating system. The reason being it is a very lite OS with very small kernel. It is economical, the softwares for this OS are also cheap, in fact the web server (Apache) for this OS is free of cost. I would definitely recommend this OS for Second Level and maybe domestic level ISPs.
Well it is interesting that the evil empire is not mentioned yet. The primary reason being I do not think Microsoft is ready yet for an enterprise level OS. They say NT 4.0 is but I have doubts about it. But NT is a good solution for the domestic level ISPs. The primary reason being the ease of Use. The web server (IIS 4.0) is integrated into the enterprise edition of NT 4.0. The main inhibition for NT will be the stability, in fact there was this joke about GM and the MS, Bill Gates made a statement in one of the Software Expos that "If GM had progressed the way the software industry had then we would have been driving $1000 dollar cars". The president of GM retaliated in one of the Auto Expos - "That is really true but no one wants to drive $1000 cars which will crash everyday." I think MS has yet to mature for an enterprise level OS.. Let us wait and watch.. If you are here then thanks for your time..

 259. Jim
January 7, 1999
jsanford@iar.net
Our company (80+ domestic employees at 4+ sites) and international distributors in many other companies just took our email off of an NT machine and moved to a Un*x (Linux) solution. The old email could not handle large attachments and locked up often (3-4 times a week). The new system has not gone down once in the past month and a half. We are evaluating switching several other of our NT file servers to Linux in the coming months and have already brought a couple of other Linux machines online for specialized tasks.

 258. Venkataramanan Govindarajan
January 7, 1999
venkataramanan@rediffmail.com
Unix: No Question about it! It's the best around.  

257. S Sachdeva
January 7, 1999
ssachdeva@removethis.erols.com
As a user of LINUX (kernel 2.1.132), UNIX and Windows (all versions) SAFEST BET - SUN. (If you have big pockets).
SAFE BET - LINUX (2.2 will be out soon 2.2pre4 is already there - Will not need a deep pocket, Use your Pentium lying around as a DNS and IT WILL WORK...) Like to reboot often, slow performance as router - Use Windows(All versions.)

 256. Anand
January 7, 1999
anand_babu@rocketmail.com
Linux

255. Raghvendra Sinha
January 7, 1999
sinhar@arbornet.org
I feel that Win NT is better than both Linux and Unix, in the sense it's more user friendly. It comes close to the other two systems in terms of stability but is not as good. Weighing all the pros and cons. I'll vote for Win NT

 254. Jeff Alami
January 7, 1999
jalami@gcs.bc.ca
Most ISPs in Canada and the USA use Linux, so it's a good bet. You save money on licences, and more importantly, save money on maintenance, support, and upgrading, lowering the total cost of ownership. What's more, a Linux system is optimised for ISP usage, with commercial programs, ISP accounting, and other software that makes Linux a worthwhile system. Linux may not be perfect for every usage just yet, but it has been a great fit for ISPs for a while now, and will continue to be in the future.

 253. R. Amarnath
January 7, 1999
ramarnat@us.oracle.com
LINUX : Linux comes free and Indian ISPs know what to do with source code and they are more than smart. With other flavors of Unix, they need to buy expensive hardware and with NT, multiply every dollar of licencing fee (Microsoft Tax) by 42.50 (currency exchange rate for dollar) and where is the profit? With NT's great performance (??) and stability (????), service/uptime will be compromised. LINUX is time tested in several countries (US/Europe) as a great platform for ISPs. May be some Indian computer company can start selling pre-configured machines with LINUX (and apache/sendmail....etc) so that ISPs have an out-of-the-box experience and get into business right away. I will invest my savings in that company!

252. N.Harrison
January 7, 1999
vulpia@sonic.net
I am a home user, not a business person. My ISP uses Linux, and I have had almost no connectivity problems in 3 years. I belong to an online service that uses NT servers for their web presence. I almost never go there anymore because it crashes so often. When servers need to be rebooted, NO ONE can connect! Keep this in mind, and choose the OS that will be the most stable, reliable, and scaleable! Good luck! I remember with fondness my one trip to India long ago - you are a great nation.
Nancy Harrison (I use Linux at home)

251. John Shafer
January 7, 1999
jshafer@oz.net
India now has a chance to choose to be the leaders of a new world operating system and reap all the benefits of it or be "the mice that follow the Pied Piper" and send their wealth to Redmond. Just tell Bill Gates its India's turn drive the armored car.

 250. Alok Mishra
January 7, 1999
amishra@prt.com
Linux with Apache web server running on it for the smaller ISPs. Sun boxes for the bigger ones.

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