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[JF Mezei]

Johnny Billquist wrote:

> No. Not a single Unix behaves "OK" in this situation. They can't. It's a 
> part of the basic design of the whole system. 


Apple's OS/X (based on Darwin/FreeBSD) uses the Apple Filing Protocol
(AFP) and this is more robust than NFS. But since Apple left the server
business, it doesn't make much of a difference to the marketplace.



At the end of the day, Oracle provides the stuff that is missing from
Unix  so people can run serious applications on Unix.

The world's largest company (Apple) runs on Solaris/Oracle. They run
their internet stores on it, their customer databases, their real retail
stores etc, and Apple has very good "MIS" systems.

And they have very good records of customer purchases, warrantee on all
their serial numbers etc.  The media may focus on their shiny iToys, but
the company is truly well equipped in IT systems to run a very efficient
ship with comprehensive CRM well beyond what Digital had and on a scale
of hundreds of millions of customers.