This isn’t an indication that Solaris is dead. This is an indication that their implementations of the graphical OpenWindows and CDE (Common Desktop Environment) are dead. Solaris just wastes on Linux and probably *BSD (I personally think FreeBSD handles load better, but lacks the level of SMP support, filesystem sophistication, ACLs, complete multi-threading, etc) for high-end needs, and will for quite a long time. Their software/hardware interaction is very tight.
Solaris is the base of most pretty major systems and networks. Sure, Yahoo runs on FreeBSD, but do you think Citibank runs their mission-critical databases on it? No. It all depends on your needs, and Solaris will have it’s niche for quite some time.
That said, I despise administering Solaris systems, they are a complete pain if you want to compile third-party software in a sane manner. Sun is slowly fixing my gripes, but I think I’ll still be slowly migrating everything from Solaris to FreeBSD, except our most high-end database servers. I won’t even go on about my opinion that Sun is the “Sys V” version of Microsoft with their business tactics.
Jacob
On 2/7/02 10:35 AM, "Ben Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
is now linux! I'm sure there'll be a lot more news about it to come,
but the last line of their news release is what summed it to me
- GNOME, the most advanced Linux user environment, will become the preferreddesktop for Solaris when GNOME 2.0 begins shipping later this year.
This seems to be first public word from its home that solaris is dead.
The penguin eats another fish...
