not so subtle solaris bias
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| herzeleid Jun 15, 2006 9:09 AM EDT |
The paper was really cheerleading for solaris while attempting to appear balanced. One tipoff is the fact that the author makes comparisons between the brand spanking new solaris 10 and the old linux 2.4 kernel. I also noticed that he cited a published mysql benchmark in which solaris outperformed linux, but didn't mention the other benchmarks which showed linux beating solaris. Selective benchmarking? Just a thought... |
| jimf Jun 15, 2006 9:36 AM EDT |
Only companies pushing proprietary software really regards equivalent software as a 'threat'. The perception that profits are in jeopardy motivates bias and FUD regardless of the facts. Competition within the open software community, while still there, just doesn't normally have that same motivation to lie cheat and steal. In this case the black sheep 'Unix clone' is finally surpassing the real deal, and Sun don't like that much. |
| tuxchick2 Jun 15, 2006 9:47 AM EDT |
I'm not experienced with Sun's products at all, but my perception is they really missed the boat. Oldtime Sun and Solaris admins still have a lot of affection for Sun and their products, both software and hardware, and would still be using them if it made sense in terms of costs, support, and keeping up with the times. In fact a lot of my friends are sticking with them, even though their stuff is obsolete. The one Sun thing that has me very interested is the ZFS filesystem. This is truly revolutionary, and it just might be the kick in the pants that OpenSolaris needs to attract a decent-sized user and dev community. What I would love to try is some kind of Linux or BSD or OpenSolaris on gen-yoo-wine server or workstation-quality hardware that is not extortionately priced, with a real Unix-type BIOS and boot system and partition table, instead of the horrid crippled x86 platform. Something that fully supports a remote serial console and complete remote control of the boot process, including step-by-step booting and logging. |
| Bob_Robertson Jun 15, 2006 11:10 AM EDT |
[url=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=debian solaris&btnG=Google Search]http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=debian solaris&btnG=Goo...[/url] Looks like a bunch of people are talking about Debian/Solaris. |
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