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Thomas Mercer-Hursh
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The DBA types can certainly speak to this point better than I can, but my experience suggests that "familiarity" with an OS is different in character from Linux vs Windows. Almost all of us have some familiarity with Windows because most of us use a Windows box for our work. So, we know how to do all the routine tasks required to use the box. But, that doesn't mean that we have the slightest clue how to tune the box to work as a database server. Whereas, if we have even limited administrative experience with Linux, we actually have a lot of the skills needed to administer it for a dataserver and the additional skills are often fairly obvious and easily acquired. With Windows, there is a lot more mystery.
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