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Jim Laurent at Sun Microsystems composed a chart comparing Solaris 10 to Linux for his boss, Bill Vass, chief operating officer of Sun's federal business unit. When Vass posted the chart for public viewing, Laurent commented on it in his personal blog in late December. Laurent said Solaris has certain advanced technical features, such as Dynamic Tracing, which give it an advantage over Linux, along with its ability to run on more versions of hardware. He acknowledged his partisanship in a posting to his blog.
The fact that someone at sun did the comparison should be the first tipoff, but typical of the fast and loose handling of the facts is the statement that solaris runs on more hardware platforms than linux. Actually they used weasel words to make that impression, but left themselves some technical wiggle room.
At any rate, linux runs on, what, off the top of my head, x86, sparc, mips, arm, alpha, power, mainframe - that's 7 completely distinct architectures, and there are more. Solaris OTOH runs on what, sparc and x86? The rest of their arguments are similarly (more or less) flaky.
I like solaris, it's a decent OS, but when they talk trash and come across like a sleazy used car salesman in a cheap suit, it really takes the shine off their image.
I agree it's a faked argument. They are really comparing all of Solaris, versus one vendors Linux distro. Solaris has some strong features and some weak ones, and comparing all that to just Red Hat Enterprise/Fedora is unfair and makes Sun look stupid...
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At any rate, linux runs on, what, off the top of my head, x86, sparc, mips, arm, alpha, power, mainframe - that's 7 completely distinct architectures, and there are more. Solaris OTOH runs on what, sparc and x86? The rest of their arguments are similarly (more or less) flaky.
I like solaris, it's a decent OS, but when they talk trash and come across like a sleazy used car salesman in a cheap suit, it really takes the shine off their image.