On Friday 25 January 2008 14:54, Chuck wrote:
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> >
> > 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."


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> Chuck Carson - Sr. Software Engineer
> Galileo Educational Solutions


Randall Schulz
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