http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2010/02/09/fast-drops-linux-unix-support-no-surprise/ Open source & enterprise search Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:50:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2010/02/09/fast-drops-linux-unix-support-no-surprise/comment-page-1/#comment-7626 charlie Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:53:44 +0000 http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/?p=266#comment-7626 We're happy to support customers running both Windows and Linux (and in fact Solaris and most other operating systems) but we prefer Linux/Unix as it's much easier to find and solve performance bottlenecks: it's also a lot easier to calculate scaling costs when you don't have license fees to worry about! We’re happy to support customers running both Windows and Linux (and in fact Solaris and most other operating systems) but we prefer Linux/Unix as it’s much easier to find and solve performance bottlenecks: it’s also a lot easier to calculate scaling costs when you don’t have license fees to worry about!

]]> http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2010/02/09/fast-drops-linux-unix-support-no-surprise/comment-page-1/#comment-7306 Haniff Din Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:18:43 +0000 http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/?p=266#comment-7306 I've been always very impressed with FAST ftp search back in the day, now they've been sold to someone like Microsoft, it's a shame. They only have one agenda but to push it's products under licences. This signals the death of Fast in my eyes! Same happened with Hotmail, it originally was fast and reliable using UNIX - then Microsoft took over and well....you can guess the rest... I’ve been always very impressed with FAST ftp search back in the day, now they’ve been sold to someone like Microsoft, it’s a shame. They only have one agenda but to push it’s products under licences. This signals the death of Fast in my eyes!
Same happened with Hotmail, it originally was fast and reliable using UNIX – then Microsoft took over and well….you can guess the rest…

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