>Elon is a big Windows fan and pushed hard to run the whole shop on Microsoft tech
wow - this is surprising to me and wasnt mentioned in the biography - any ideas why ?
wow - this is surprising to me and wasnt mentioned in the biography - any ideas why ?
https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/...
Jackson was the guy who realised that PayPal and eBay had massive synergy and worked super hard to get PayPal in there. Eventually leading to eBay buying them out, and Musk and Thiel going from merely rich to actually billionaires.
Musk has even admitted as much that he prefers game developers. Maybe he see's the parallel for working overtime and uses this "perk" to his advantage? From an article from 2015[0]:
> "We actually hire a lot of our best software engineers out of the gaming industry," said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, when Fast Company posed this question during the May 29 Dragon V2 unveiling. "In gaming there's a lot of smart engineering talent doing really complex things. [Compared to] a lot of the algorithms involved in massive multiplayer online games…a docking sequence [between spacecraft] is actually relatively straightforward. So I'd encourage people in the gaming industry to think about creating the next generation of spacecraft and rockets."
[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-is-spacex-at-a-video-gam...
That felt weird to type.
Both are reasonably capable of high service uptimes and solid performance. With Server Core and PowerShell, there's a lot more parity than my fellow Linux admins want to admit, but either is a viable choice for general IT services at this point.
Note - I'm excluding licensing entirely from this, as well as infrastructure maintenance and control surfaces. Nobody likes DSC, and there are several superior config management solutions for Linux that don't have meaningful analogs on Windows.
Back at that time of NT4 & Linux 2.2, I'd argue Solaris was the best option.