For Unix Admin:
How will Solaris figure in this if Google Apps really
takes off? Have you a guarantee?
Google has an architectural problem. They have huge Linux farms. And Linux
as we know it is nowhere near ready for the enterprise. It does not have the
kind of architecture that would make it suitable for management in large
numbers. Actually, it has no architecture at all, it's all ad-hoc.
And that's a problem, a bigass problem. It's like Windows(R) in that
something that's based on not well thought-through arch, or lack thereof,
can never be good. It can look good, but looking good doesn't make it
overall good.
Furthermore, Google isn't that stupid. They see that Solaris is now gratis.
And the CEO is an ex Sun employee; he knows full well what Solaris is
capable of and how much of a quality engineered product Solaris is. And
especially, how manageable Solaris is. Don't think for a second that all
those facts have gone unnoticed or lost on Google.
What will happen is that Solaris will power Google someday, and all the
Google's AJAX apps. Solaris excells at such things really, in spite of all
the Slashdot.org FUD and propaganda.
So the AJAX app will run on your home set-top box, inside of a web browser,
which will also be powered by Solaris and send the display to your thin
client. Which could very well turn out to be your gaming console. We're
talking a full cycle here. The end-consumer will most likely be blissfully
unaware of the fact that it's Solaris ticking underneath.
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