The Power to Serve

PI: What is Xinet's take on the platform wars?

Seebass: One of the most recent developments is that there are more platform choices. Last year, it was the NT/UNIX debate. Now, we've got the NT/UNIX/Linux/OS X server debate. Overall, debating what hardware or what OS to run is beside the point. The bottom line is that if a server does its job right, it shouldn't matter whether it's running UNIX, NT or some other operating system because you shouldn't notice the server. It's just a black box that sits in a closet somewhere. The main thing the server should do is stay up and provide services to the users.