Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?

Ummm ... given option ... I'd rewrite SSA/IRS using
one of the BSDs (maybe a commercial version) as the
OS base ... not Linux. The BSDs are 'more stable'
while Linux has a zillion distros/variants and now
changes fundamental things too often, chasing the
GUI 'customer base' too zealously.
Hell, FreeBSD distros don't even COME with a GUI,
you have to install it afterwards and tweak it in.
Apple bought a commercial Unix and tweaked that into
its current OS. RUMORS that M$ is on a similar path,
albeit step-wise. Big Govt can/should do the same.
Just sayin' ...
Well, they could always use Plan-9 ... which ain't
awful AND designed to link lots of servers and
such together, kinda wasted on a single box. Saw
a thing a couple years ago where the team was
celebrating porting '9' over to those big black
IBM super-server clusters. Those would run a
large govt entity with room to spare.