But the whole point of this is that we're not talking about Sparc
machines. And that the Opteron boxes are 'industry standard' and
certified for Linux.
Manu Abraham wrote:
> Christopher Saul wrote:
>> > By saying so .. ?
>> >
>> > "Solaris is a better Linux than Linux" —Marc Andreessen
>>
>> Well, to quote him again -
>>
>> # Solaris 10 reliability is a very big deal for us
>> # Sun is now riding aggressive side of the price/performance curve
>> # With Sun hardware, we know everything has been tested and integrated
>> together
>> # With Solaris, we know if we need vertical scalability, we'll actually
>> be able to get it
>>
>> The total solution is part of it of course, so the hardware is important
>> whether running Linux or Solaris, as he makes clear.
>>
>>
>
> He talks openly about a migration path, rather than saying the hardware
> advantage.
> I don't know why it is so hard to understand that quote ?
>
>
> "Solaris is a better Linux than Linux" —Marc Andreessen
>
> What did Marc Say?
>
> * We originally planned to use Linux on Intel commodity hardware
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sun .. ?
>
> * Solaris is a better Linux than Linux
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> * Solaris has similar economic and OpenSource advantages as Linux
> * It's very easy to move from Linux to Solaris
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> * Solaris 10 reliability is a very big deal for us
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> * Sun is now riding aggressive side of the price/performance curve
> * With Sun hardware, we know everything has been tested and
> integrated together
> * With Solaris, we know if we need vertical scalability, we'll
> actually be able to get it
>
>
> I believe it is in English .. ;-)
>
> As i understand, it just emphasises the fact Solaris runs better on
> Sun's hardware than anything else, which i very much agree, and one of
> the main reasons why whenever i buy server hardware my preference goes
> to IBM than Sun, just because of the thought that Linux might not run
> well on Sun hardware.
>
> Well, it is at least true for gcc, gcc performs badly on Sparc machines
> compared to Sun's closed compiler. And one of the many reasons why many
> people _don't_ prefer to run Linux on Sparc machines.
>
>
> Manu
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