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Bodog gambles on Linux and JBoss, and wins (NewsForge)
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reports on the switch from Solaris to Linux by bodog.com.
"Bodog.com is a casino, sport-betting emporium, and online poker palace. The site gets busy; during football season it takes almost 200,000 bets per week, while the virtual poker tables can handle up to 5,000 bettors at a time. Bodog started out using WebLogic and Versant on Solaris, but ran into problems when a bug repeatedly took servers down at critical junctures. Vendors didn't offer much help, but a switch to Linux and JBoss brought Bodog some much-needed relief in the form of more reliable uptime and scaling capacity."
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Linux hitting strong on Solaris and Unix Posted Jun 16, 2006 2:35 UTC (Fri) by tristangrimaux (guest, #26831) [Link] Linux is really smashing their closest competitors this year, and they are of course Solaris and Unix. This is splendid news as it is a good way to be strong enough to hit the desktop market (and it will, that's for sure).Donde Ser Geek No Duele
Linux hitting strong on Solaris and Unix Posted Jun 16, 2006 5:40 UTC (Fri) by Tao (guest, #24985) [Link] This is the second or third story I read recently about Linux replacing Solaris. Oddly, each of them talks about what happened several years ago. Like in the other story, Linux replaced Solaris 8 on x86.
This one talks about a bug that "could have been either in Versant's or WebLogic's object-oriented database", then "We found the bug and fixed it".
EJB is a specification, not a product.
If you were using EJB plus a "object-oriented database" at the time of "Redhat 9", you obviously over-engineered or most likely over-sold by the HW/SW vendors, which isn't surprising, for the dot-com years.
This article can't be possibly written by some developer or engineer, at least not the ones that "decompiled the code" then "found the bug and fixed it" -- they're too smart for this.
It's a marketing piece.
Let's take a wild guess whose marketing it is. "We used to use the stock Red Hat 9, but we've found that it's been worth it springing for the enterprise stuff.", and running JBOSS, hmm ...
Well, looks like it worked on at least one LWN readers, see above.
Linux hitting strong on Solaris and Unix Posted Jun 16, 2006 14:40 UTC (Fri) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link] This is the second or third story I read recently about Linux replacing Solaris.I'm working on such a project myself, although I can't say much about it at present. I live in a large city, and there seems to be enough UNIX to Linux migration work out there to keep me busy for some time.
Bodog gambles on Linux and JBoss, and wins (NewsForge) Posted Jun 16, 2006 3:00 UTC (Fri) by pmilne (guest, #34533) [Link] The more close computer systems are to a company's core business (eg the likes of Google, on line gaming, auction sites etc), the more important it is for the company to have total control of its computing facilities. This means having everything at its fingertips including source code. Any serious glitch needs to be fixed immediately. Waiting on vendors to respond is just not an option in these types of operations.
Microsoft, etc just do not make the grade for this type of work.
Incidentally I understand that a major oil company does not use open source as the 'warm fuzzy' of indemnification is a big issue for them. How they can justify this as a risk management strategy, goodness knows. They are IMO running a far bigger corporate risk by not having full control of their vital resources, than the risk of a lawsuit from some pip-squeak like SCO.
Bodog gambles on Linux and JBoss, and wins (NewsForge) Posted Jun 16, 2006 7:17 UTC (Fri) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link] The more close computer systems are to a company's core business (eg the likes of Google, on line gaming, auction sites etc), the more important it is for the company to have total control of its computing facilities.I wonder if there are any ISPs who have access to the complete source code of the software running on their Cisco routers... Similarly, I don't think that telecom operators (wireline or mobile) have access to the source code of the software running on their equipment. But they do have support contracts with the vendors ensuring that the developers are available even at Sunday 3am if needed.
Bodog gambles on Linux and JBoss, and wins (NewsForge) Posted Jun 16, 2006 17:49 UTC (Fri) by ringlord (subscriber, #6309) [Link] Actually, some Telcos are using Kannel which is an open source SMSC andWAP gateway. See http://www.kannel.org/ for more
Bodog gambles on Linux and JBoss, and wins (NewsForge) Posted Jun 18, 2006 21:24 UTC (Sun) by hazard (subscriber, #3695) [Link] Unfortunately ISPs don't have a choice. I would be much more happier if our core routers ran Linux as we do on small wireless routers, but open source software with high-end functionality similar to Cisco IOS simply does not exist.
I find Cisco IOS software quite unreliable these days, and experience with Cisco Technical Assistance Center shows you DON'T get the support you pay for...
Bodog gambles on Linux and JBoss, and wins (NewsForge) Posted Jun 16, 2006 19:03 UTC (Fri) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link] > Incidentally I understand that a major oil company does not use open source as the 'warm fuzzy' of indemnification is a big issue for them.
How so? open source and indemnification are not mutually exclusive options, and closed source vendors are just as susceptible to lawsuits as open source vendors.
I work for a fortune 100 company which uses linux for infrastructure, and all the appropriate indemnification agreements with $LINUX_VENDOR are in place.
Bodog gambles on Linux and JBoss, and wins (NewsForge) Posted Jun 18, 2006 16:01 UTC (Sun) by Arker (guest, #14205) [Link] Yet another company happy to take advantage of FOSS behind the scenes to save themselves money and aggravation, but absolutely unwilling to support customers who want to do the same...
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