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Sun has an identity crisis
Either Sun should go into the software market or the hardware market, it can't seem to manage both.

Why do people use Solaris today? Mostly because that is what came with on the UltraSparc server that the IT department mortgaged the farm on, it was not a choice. I have tried to use x86 Solaris on two different occasions and the results were the same, we dumped it in favor of something else. Solaris is great when you have a 64 processor server, but put it on a small machine and it constantly accesses the swap file. Solaris is a pig.

If Sun were smart they would dump Solaris all together, go back to concentrating on the hardware. UltraSparc hardware is very solid, if they could bump up the speed of the CPU's they would be back at the top of the hill. Sun should stop just playing with Linux and use it exclusively, port all of their apps over to it and close the doors on it's OS shop. If Sun continues to beat this dead horse (Solaris) Bill Gates is going to end up running Longhorn on Sun Servers. Are you Linux zealots laughing? You just wait and see...
Posted by: balsover   Posted on: 09/13/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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I KNEW it was going to happen!!!! Go MS and Sun!!!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/13/04
Now I must wonder if that is why...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/13/04
WinFS  tjung_z | 09/14/04
Maybe the smartest thing to do to compete with Linux.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/13/04
MS filesystems on Solaris?  balsover | 09/13/04
NTFS???? What are you talking about?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/13/04
Having read the technical description of WinFS from Microsoft...  B.O.F.H. | 09/13/04
Thank you for making my point so clear.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/14/04
Still sits on NTFS!  B.O.F.H. | 09/14/04
Stupid Sun again?  tjung_z | 09/14/04
Those in the know call WinFS vaporware  balsover | 09/15/04
Dump Solaris?  Roger Ramjet | 09/14/04
No not crazy  balsover | 09/15/04
There is room for Solaris!  George Mitchell | 09/13/04
Can I borrow your glasses for a while  Richard Flude | 09/14/04
Sun has an identity crisis  balsover | 09/13/04
Um no...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/13/04
Whats wrong with running Longhorn on Sun servers?  George Mitchell | 09/13/04
Personally I'd pick Solaris over Linux anyday  voska | 09/14/04
The chips (SPArc and Intel) are not binary compatible.  B.O.F.H. | 09/14/04
Until the Sun/MS agreement I would have said yes.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/14/04
Not suer about the demand for WIndows on SPArc.  B.O.F.H. | 09/14/04
They don't need to be  balsover | 09/15/04
Sun Hardware is less expensive than DELL  voska | 09/14/04
Slowaris  tjung_z | 09/14/04
Contradiction of the Sun--Microsoft Agreement  David Mohring | 09/14/04
Liability, licenses  armonica | 09/16/04

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