[COLUG] Binary Compatibility - was Open Solaris and the Borg

[Josh Glover]

On 02/11/06, Stephen Potter <spp at unixsa.net> wrote:

> I have 8000 Solaris servers running thousands of applications.  Imagine
> how much effort it would take to go through all of those servers and
> recompile the binary, test it, port the changes that someone made on a
> whim without any engineering thought, recompile (again), test (again), and
> redeploy.

I can imagine the effort, as Amazon has far more than 8000 servers,
all running Linux, on which the process you describe above happens at
least twice a month.

Linux is a quite capable platform for commercial / enterprise
applications, as the example of Amazon and Google should convince you.

-Josh