[Opensim-dev] If MIcrosoft buys LL, impact on OpenSIm?

[Michael Cerquoni]

Please stay on topic with this thread, the question was not what operating
system is better, the question was what would the impact be on OpenSimulator
project if Microsoft bought Linden Labs, and the answer has been stated
several times.  This thread is 100% speculation and honestly is completely
off topic for OpenSim-Dev mailing list, so please stop responding to this
thread.

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Rob Nelson <nexisentertainment at gmail.com>wrote:

>  On 9/30/2010 3:45 PM, Kesick, Nicholas Charles wrote:
>
>  It seems you know very little about Windows Server operations, and who’s
> to say Microsoft would come in and change all of the underlying OSes?
>
> I wouldn’t recommend runing LINUX with Opensim on anything less than 4GB
> (production), and Windows Server Core is a very robust and light system, of
> which I would still run on 4GB. Server Core weighs less on my server than
> Fedora or Ubuntu Server.
>
>
>
> But consider first, the advantage of connection speeds that would be
> available to Second Life with Microsoft as the owner.  Right now Linden Labs
> has been building server centers and their fiber “LL Net”.  Now Micorosft
> walks in. Here’s 400x the server power with datacenters in many states, and
> 10000x the bandwidth around the world. Tada! Lag time between client and
> server gone, especially with international users.
>
>
>
> Microsoft also has the assets to help the education sector, which has been
> having more and more trouble staying with Second Life because of a lack of
> support.
>
>
>
> So, don’t just write it off because of the OS. Remember the other assets
> they have, like internet connections and good management skills.
>
>
>
> - Nicholas Kesick
>
> Now at kesickn09 at students.ecu.edu!
>
> Oh, I do, and I shall.  I managed a Windows Server 2003-based Active
> Directory network for the City, and then had my own Win Serv 2003 Active
> Directory network at home while first setting up my application hosting
> service.  Despite having a hardware firewall and allowing automatic updates,
> I had to clear out worms every 3 weeks and was on the edge of buying more
> RAM.  I have since switched to Linux-based hosting and have never looked
> back.
>
> And I have successfully run OpenSim on three 1GB RAM Pentium 4 @ 3.0GHz.  I
> ran two regions each, yes, but sacrificing quantity for quality is a lot
> cheaper than shelling out for new servers.
>
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