On Friday 25 January 2008 14:54, Chuck wrote: > ... > > > > I'm old school too. But Suns and SPARCs are yesterday dude :) > > Linux and x86-64 are NOW! > > lawl. Dude Sun and Sarc are going no where any time soon... just the > opposite... Sparc IV+ & Solaris 10 dance circles around Linux on any > hardware.. You need to spend some time in a true top-tier enterprise > class data center. Linux still has scores or limitations holding it > back in the enterprise realm. There is a reason the stuff is > expensive -- its damn good.
How do you explain the Googles and Amazons of this world, whose stock OS platform for customer-fronted services is Linux? I'm not saying Solaris is on its way out, but one can most certainly run very-large-scale enterprise operations on Linux. I tend to doubt it's "held back." > ... > -- > Chuck Carson - Sr. Software Engineer > Galileo Educational Solutions Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
