IBM takes potshots at OpenSolaris

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Fortunately or unfortunately, OSs will become

less relevant, except for those locked in a specific proprietary one, where all apps relate to it in a paghetti tangled fashion.

IBM shouldn't be making fun of Solaris or its Open version. Whoever has used both knows VERY WELL what kind of pain it is to use AIX to do various management chores. I wouldn't go that far, but some people even scorn at AIX as being a "mainframe" "unix" (ie, buraucratic and not UNIX).

Solaris has its quirks but it has moved on to a very mature state with tons of new features (zones, Dtrace, efficient support of 10Gig and other high-speed I/O, new services layer, etc.)

Plus, Solaris now runs on both Ultra-Sparc/T1 and IA32 or AMD64/EM64T platforms. AIX runs only on Power.

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Posted by: michael_t   Posted on: 08/16/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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