Robert Treat wrote: > On Tuesday 09 December 2008 19:43:02 Liraz Siri wrote: >> Greg has a good point. Ubuntu is a bit of a moving target. In contrast, >> Debian has a much slower release cycle than Ubuntu and is thus >> considered by many people to be preferable for production server >> applications. >> > > Another option for folks is to switch to another operating system thats a bit > more stable *cough*solaris*cough*bsd*cough*
Solaris is awesome (dtrace rocks!), but I still prefer Debian/Linux for the same reasons I prefer PostgreSQL over MySQL - its lack of dependence on any single company. Besides Sun Microsystems hasn't been a financially healthy organization for quite a few years, as evidenced by its rather dismal stock performance: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=java Cheers, Liraz -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
