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I agree

"Yes, one of the pitfalls of Solaris is hardware support!
But, it is rock solid on the hardware it supports!"

I agree, however Linux is also rock solid. The advantage Linux
has in this area is a greater flexibility of accredited server
configurations which can save significant dough and give system
designers, like myself, a great deal of flexibility.

"You forgot to mention Solaris containers..."

Yes a number of viable options exist for Linux including user-
mode Linux. I agree it is not yet as good nor as integrated as
Solaris Containers.

"But, Linux will eventually have all of the features of Solaris and
more unless Sun could pull of a coup and get lots of developers
excited about Solaris. "

I don't believe it will be an either or. Solaris will benefit from
greater developer participation, but I don't see this as being at
the expense of Linux. Ideally Solaris having to a more GPL-like
license would benefit both OSes enormously.

"Limited hardware support, but higher reliability is NOT
necessarily a disadvantage for servers!!!"

Absolutely!!! Again SunOS kernel and Solaris are great. I just
don't think the claim can be substantiated that they're "far
superior" to Linux (kernel or the commercial distributions e.g.
RHEL or Novell/SUSE).

I'd like to see Sun open source their Java VM and produce a
competitive Linux distribution. They have excellent *nix
experience and a well developed enterprise application stack. An
open source Java VM will allow it to be incorporated into all open
source *nix distributions within the package manager and also
allow it to be ported to more architectures.

Posted by: Richard Flude   Posted on: 01/30/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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