It seems no one is interested in trying to figure out what is right about Solaris.
On 5/11/07, Brian Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Before we rush headlong into changing Solaris, I think it is worth at least a moment to reflect on what makes Solaris our choice of OS. In no particular order Technical ------------------------------ 1) Stable ABI 2) Great SMP support. IE: Scales very well 3) Dtrace instrumenting 4) ZFS 5) Reputation for reliability (Solaris is a more stable OS, especially under high load) 6) SMF 7) Zones - Resource management (Very lightweight virtualization) 8) Performant (Many open source applications run on Solaris better then on Linux) 9) Security, For a long time Trusted Solaris was the standard for a secure UNIX operating system (Solaris 10 on Opteron has better security) 10) Good compiler 11) Interesting processor/platform choices. Business -------------- 1) Large ISV support. Almost 5000 commercial apps 2) Support seems better than competition's 3) Long product life cycles 4) Lower maintenance cost 5) Single neck to choke Intangibles --------------- 1) Learning Solaris opens the door for administration of big Iron sparc servers 2) Sun plans to open source all their software 3) It's cool to be different 4) "Feature creep" is less pronounced in Solaris 5) Directed development effort. IE: There is a roadmap (I hope) Please feel free to comment. (Once I get a final list I will be throwing it over to my local LUG mailing list, and seeing what comments I get back.) -Brian P.S. - Please note there are a couple of things I didn't mention... that people spend most of their time talking about.
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