On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote:
CentOS not being anything like the official Solaris release, I beg to differ. It is essentially what you can get with RHEL sans Redhat trademarks and direct Redhat support. Then there is Ubuntu. Linux may not be carrier grade but what it comes with more than makes up for its lack where carrier grade is not needed. Without that paid Sun support, official Solaris 10 is pretty much crippled against Centos, Ubuntu or even Fedora. Software management, drivers, development...the cards are stacked against free Solaris 10 and Open Solaris if you had to compete against others who use Linux and spend less energy on these three areas.
Are you saying that you can get 24x7 full support for free from Centos? Because if so, I would find that amazing. Doesn't Centos charge for their products/support?
Remember that Solaris/OpenSolaris don't have any cost associated with the product. Sun doesn't give support away, other than opensolaris.org, that is free. But if you want 24x7 where you can call up and escalate a fix, you have to pay for that. This is not bad, this is how it should work.
Now, are you saying that Centos offers that for free? -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
