| Poll: Linux's big data guzzling worries melt away From The Register:
Fears that the open-source operating system isn't up to the job of processing big data have fallen by 40 per cent in the last 12 months, according to the Linux Foundation's annual Enterprise Linux report.
Last year 20.3 per cent had expressed reservations – today that number is 12.2 per cent. The poll found 75 per cent had expressed concern about the need to support big data, while 72 per cent plan to run big data sets on Linux. Just 35.9 per cent will pick Windows.
The Linux Foundation surveyed 1,900 individuals with 428 respondents at organisations with $500m or more in annual revenue or more than 500 employees. It reckoned these are shops running mixed Linux and Windows systems.
A pleasantly surprised Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin told The Reg he'd raised an eyebrow upon reading how concerns had dropped away during the last year.
According to Zemlin, the biggest problem for Linux today is not refining the technology but a shortage in skilled people to program and support the penguin. |
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| I must be missing something. 75% of the internet runs on *nix. The world's fastest computers run *nix. All the wonderful computer graphics you see out of Hollywood run on *nix. Google runs on *nix. So how can anyone think *nix can't handle big data? |
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| said by howardfine:I must be missing something. 75% of the internet runs on *nix. The world's fastest computers run *nix. All the wonderful computer graphics you see out of Hollywood run on *nix. Google runs on *nix. So how can anyone think *nix can't handle big data?
Sales reps handing out Windows logo golf accessories said it was slow.
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My dad and his employer swear by zOS. From the sounds of it, they might have to switch if they can't find people who know how to use IBMs systems.
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said by firephoto:said by howardfine:So how can anyone think *nix can't handle big data?
Sales reps handing out Windows logo golf accessories said it was slow. Perfect!  |
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said by howardfine:I must be missing something. 75% of the internet runs on *nix. The world's fastest computers run *nix. All the wonderful computer graphics you see out of Hollywood run on *nix. Google runs on *nix. So how can anyone think *nix can't handle big data?
unix != linux. It's that simple. There are enterprise features and functionality that exist in systems like AIX, HPUX and even Solaris that run circles around Linux.
Don't take this the wrong way - Linux is great for a lot of things, but patch and package management - no matter what flavor - have a long way to go to catch up with Software Distributor on HPUX. Or, show me anything even remotely close to SMIT on AIX. Or GlancePlus on UX. So on and so forth ... |
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| SMIT on AIX is really nice and can help new admins learn the environment much easier, but there are some good things on Linux as well. We use RHEL here as well as AIX and their Satellite software makes OS updates and package updates much smoother. AIX OS updates are a tedious bitch and trying to set up SUMA versus Satellite is a pain.
IBM support is shit, too. We tried to implement Samba in one of our environments and we had to recompile the code ourselves. We couldn't use Fast Connect, because they discontinued development for it, so it only works against Windows 2003 Domain Controllers, when our environment had moved on to 2008. It took them getting "some guy" from Minnesota (flown in) who previously worked in the Samba department, to troubleshoot why some ancient version of Samba couldn't compile. He eventually got it working.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux would let us deploy through a web interface without any issues. You want Samba? The shit is there, tested, and ready to roll. AIX handles a lot of things greatly, but if you need a solution for handling non-standard AIX things that otherwise work in a *nix environment, IBM can have some pretty bad support.
Also, their hardware platform is extremely expensive and if you want to run AIX, you're running their hardware. With Linux (and I can only speak for RHEL), you can choose your hardware platform and greatly reduce your costs.
You can't write off any single platform. AIX is a solid OS and the shit just works, like a boss.
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