I'm relatively young against others in this thread so you don't need listen to me ;-)
I started with Atari as I was kid and then DOS,all Windows and so on.During this time I started with Linux.I discovered OpenBSD in those times but it looked too much "geeky" for me :-) Now I'm working with HP-UX,AIX and Solaris too so I can see some pros and cons. Preferred OS is OpenBSD for me thanks to its quality,stability,security,documentation and philosophy based on technology.There are emulation layers for HP-UX,SunOS,SVR4,Linux and others http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=compat_&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&apropos=1&format=html Quality of development is unbelievable in comparison with MS,Linux or in some areas Sun.But this OS is example that it's possible. Solaris 10 is great in case of longterm support,stability of API,usefullness in HPC.There are cons with HW support of x86 servers other than Sun OpenSolaris will be great future for Sun if management will wake-up from their dream and focus on bugs and marketing of this product.There are big cons in maintenance of bugs HP-UX is mature and stable OS designed for big "monsters",but it does its work good.Cons are price,HW support,SW apps,but who may want it on laptop? ;-D AIX I don't know so much yet.Maybe it's good for virtualization and some special apps,but nothing more tri >From point of history there is one important thing - Most of commercial Unix >are left behind and "free" alternatives are winning.Sun take correct step with >OpenSolaris to solve this,but if it was in time we can see in future.HP-UX and >AIX will die slowly (it will take very long as I know some servers which run >for about twenty years).I don't think that Linux is real alternative for them. Don't know what to say about some managers.They think that if something is for "free" then it's bad.I don't know where are these stupid ideas from?Maybe from "voice from above" or something like that? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
