On February 5, Brian D Chase wrote:
> >   Actually, some of us are...
> 
> Err, that should be NetBSD/vax.  I know that lots of people use NetBSD on
> other platforms to do real world commercial work.  In my experiences I'd
> say OSes like Linux and NetBSD hold up better than their commerical
> counterparts.  At my last job we dumped 95% of our NT servers for
> Linux/Samba which ran a whole hell of lot more reliably than NT ever did. 
> Yeah for free software...
> 
> I would however be surprised if NetBSD/vax systems are used for real world
> commerical use.  Primarily because of the lack of raw CPU cycles available
> on the systems currently supported.

  Hmm...got two nameservers, one web server, one web cache, and one
mailing list server running NetBSD/vax at a commercial facility.  They
run fine and are plenty fast enough for the tasks at hand.


                           -Dave McGuire
                            mcguire@neurotica.com