[Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good
- From: metherid@xxxxxxxxx (Rahul Sundaram)
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:09:58 +0530
On 09/24/2011 09:25 PM, Kumara Guru wrote:
I am not denying that. When designing apps around an open platform, I
expect costs be less than intimidating to comfortably go for
periodical planned upgrades.
Have you talked to any organization having a large deployment on Linux?
I encourage you to do that before making assumptions around this topic.
A open web platform does mean costs are going to be less but doesn't
mean stability concerns are going to just evaporate. In fact, the point
of enterprise releases in part is because large deployments don't
necessarily want to follow the break neck pace of changes in the open
source world. Virtualization makes some changes possible in terms of
being not tied to a particular hardware but there are a very large
number which don't trust virtualization enough with anything critical at
this point. If you have custom applications around a platform, change
is hard regardless of whether the underlying stack is open or not. Try
migrating a custom PHP (4.x to 5.x) or Python (2.3 to 2.7) or MySQL
(3.x to 4.x) and you will see how costly it can be. Heck, forget
enterprises. Even hosting providers have problems of this sort.
Rahul
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