On Wed, December 2, 2009 01:06, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> As far as I am concerned Sun OpenSource software venture stinks. I
think with
>> all the noise about Oracle buying them, and their blunders in
>> implementation
>> of OpenSolaris, MySQL, and VirtualBox, they have little chance of
surviving
>> in the Open Source software market. Perhaps their high-end hardware
offerings will fare better.
>
> To be fair, although the OpenSolaris venture was originally set up by
Sun, it is not staffed nor operated by Sun (although Sun has input). I
use Sun Solaris 10 on my main server and I haven't had any problems with
it, but I've heard many reports thaqt code from the OpenSolaris project
is of ... shall we say, dubious stability. OpenSolaris is widely
considered not ready for production.
>
Ditto what he said.
OpenSolaris is (currently) really aimed at the Laptop world more than the
Enterprise - it is where all the nice new bits get exposed and have most
of the bugs ironed out of them.
Solaris 10, which is also free, is a lot stabler, modulo having hardware
that it wants to be stable on if you are in the x86/x64 world.
I have several S10 systems under my aegis, both SPARC and x64, and the x64
boxes have a sprinkling of VBox VM's on them, both 32- and 64-bit, and
I've had no trouble upgrading VBox (I always remove VBox before installing
the new version, and none of my VM's are created/owned by "root").
And I can't say I've noticed any problems with MySQL - but I've stuck with
the CoolStack/WebStack variants since they came out, that way someone
/else/ fixes the build before I see a binary.
All that said - I am *still* worried about what will happen if the
acquisition of Sun by Oracle goes through - and just as worried if it
*doesn't*!!
Cheers,
Gary B-)
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