http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2010/02/09/fast-drops-linux-unix-support-no-surprise/ The Open Source Search Specialists Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:44:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/2010/02/09/fast-drops-linux-unix-support-no-surprise/#comment-18631 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:53:44 +0000 http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/?p=266#comment-18631 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-18630 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:18:43 +0000 http://www.flax.co.uk/blog/?p=266#comment-18630 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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