[FastCoyote]

GE: Wrongo on the number of servers Golden Eagle. From Wikipedia (and other articles): "Google's services are run on several server farms, each consisting of thousands of low-cost commodity computers running stripped-down versions of Linux. While the company does not provide detailed information about its hardware, a 2006 estimate consisted of over 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters located in data centers around the world" Whether they move to OpenSolaris or not is inconsequential, the question you conveniently ignored was how many Win2003 servers they were running.

[Golden Eagle]

What estimate of their number of servers, by whom? Did it break them down by O/S as well? Doubtful since it was an estimate to begin with.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Thanks to all of you who posted links...I bookmarked them, and will begin experimenting on one of my non-XP systems soon. Semi-geek instead of full geek, but I bet I can get one of'em running nicely before I need to make decisions on the rest of them.