[Info-vax] Apache + mod_php performance

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 10:01:10 -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:

> On 9/28/24 4:33 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 09:26:51 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 
>>> On 9/28/2024 1:08 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:18:39 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> SQLServer is used at a few high volume places like MS own Office 365
>>>>> web and StackExchange.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if it was used as part of that London Stock Exchange system
>>>> that imploded so spectacularly?
>>>
>>> The TradElect system used by London Stock Exchange 2007-2011 (which
>>> was not a success) used SQLServer 2000 as database.
>> 
>> Not exactly a recommendation for mission-critical use, is it?
> 
> Saying SQL Server is a poor choice for anything based on one story about
> SQL 2000 is like saying you should never use a web browser because
> Netscape 1.0 had its problems.  In the last 20+ years, Microsoft has
> made massive investments in improving SQL Server's performance and
> scalability, has ported it to Linux, and has added boatloads of new
> features.

And yet the whole Windows Server thing is very definitely in its sunset 
years -- at least the on-prem version. Did Microsoft’s reputation ever 
recover from that screwup, especially after it made such a big, noisy deal 
about winning such an important contract against a Linux alternative in 
the first place? The “Highly Reliable Times” ad campaign, and all that 
self-serving bullshit?

What was George C Scott’s line from “Dr Strangelove”:

    “I don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because
    of a single slipup, sir.”

Remember what the slipup was ...