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Re: Maariv web site



Soon in Israel is almost Never ;-)

Eli Marmor wrote:

> Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>
> > Does anyone knows about maariv web site configuration? according to net
> > craft:
> >
> > http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.maariv.co.il
> >
> > Its running Apache on Windows NT... - I didn't ever see this weird
> > combination. Specially to high demand site such as Maariv..
>
> The explanation is simple:
>
> Nobody (maybe except for subscribers of this list...) could miss the
> headlines, 2 months ago, about Maariv to go on-line using Linux. All
> the newspapers wrote about it, and discussed the "gambling" of Maariv
> (in THEIR opinion), especially People&Computers (InformationWeek) and
> Reshet. In addition, the project was based on Oracle technologies.
>
> But a key component (from Oracle) in this project, was not available
> in time for Linux, so they decided to start (TEMPORARILY) with NT,
> and move later (I believe that soon) to Linux. The whole format is
> not final, so everything is very temporary now. This is why there is
> no advertizing for this site.
>
> When the format will be final and the technology will move to Linux
> completely, expect a big campaign (I would guess that the campaign
> will not omit the involvement of Linux).
>
> A thing that is not going to change, even after moving to Linux, is
> the load balancing, or more exactly - the lack of it. They seem to be
> too naive to believe that one PC can hold dozens of thousands of
> readers daily. But I guess that the "Britannica Effect" will return
> in this case, and after being surprised of the demand, a pharm of
> computers will replace the poor PC.
>
> Disclaimer: I don't have ANY kind of involvement in this project.
>
> BTW: I know many installations of Apache on NT. Moreover, although my
> personal recommendation is to use Apache on Linux or Solaris, many of
> the installations I'm involved with, are Apache on NT.
> --
> Eli Marmor
>
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