Good point. Solaris on x86 has a loyal following, but it is a small group of followers.
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OpenSolaris There's also a ton of vendor sw (systems management and other) on Solaris. If that doesn't get ported as well, doubtful that any large corp where solaris has been for years would be able to get much use out of it. It's still an evolving story with z/Linux. That's my 2 cents. Marcy Cortes "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] OpenSolaris > Curiousity question. Why bother? What does OpenSolaris have that is > needed? Why not one of the BSDs as well / instead? Because there's a lot of operations and institutional knowledge about Solaris in a lot of different places, and while Linux and the *BSDs are low cost/freely acquirable, skills transfer is not. Sun has also done a lot of work to improve some of the seamier bits of data management and storage management in the Unix world that haven't filtered over into the Linux/BSD world. Doing the whole OS gets the best of both worlds and if one can do baby steps from Solaris on SPARC to zSeries hardware, there's a lot of people that can shut up about "I have to retrain all my Solaris weenies so I won't even consider other options". Usual arguments about RAS for zSeries hardware stipulated by reference. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
