The article posted here a week ago, "Can Linux do Database?" provoked enough response for it to be worth our highlighting some of it and going a little deeper. The article was prompted by a comment in an interview with IBM's Janet Perna (General Manager, Data Management Solutions). When asked about heavy duty implementations of database on Linux, she said that IBM were not seeing much activity in that area yet.

Linux and Large Database Tuesday 9th April 2002

The article posted here a week ago, "Can Linux do Database?" provoked enough response for it to be worth our highlighting some of it and going a little deeper. The article was prompted by a comment in an interview with IBM's Janet Perna (General Manager, Data Management Solutions). When asked about heavy duty implementations of database on Linux, she said that IBM were not seeing much activity in that area yet.

The context of the article was simple. It is now clear that Linux has captured a great deal of the market in web servers, email servers, domain name servers and even application servers. In other words it is a widely used server operating system. To this we can add the fact that it is widely used and looks like it is about to dominate the embedded system space; and it is extensively used in large scientific clusters, which are compute intensive.

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