>Don't think of this as a troll, because I really don't know, even
>though I do know that MVS, OpenVMS & Solaris can. (I won't even
>ask about toys like Windows and FreeBSD.)
What so toy in Windows?
With some experience on huge DBs,
one on Windows ( MS SQL 2K ) works x1.5/2 faster, than one on Linux/Sun
( pg 7.3.3 ).
Read-only transactions tho.
Is Linux ready for big dbs, I would say yes, with new kernel I say
definitely yes.