Some good reasons to use Sun Products:
1) You have lots of $money$ to spend. 2) You want to make your life (as sys admin) a lot easier. If you cant solve your problem, Sun is a phone call away. That's assuming you purchase the service contract. In addition, you have a good excuse why you arent done yet solving your problems. Lots of documentations too. 3) You have a huge number of users who run Unix applications. The users generally dont know how to administer a unix/linux box. 4) You have to run compute intensive simulations. Imagine running complex simulations on pentium class machines. Of course, I assume you have at least 4CPUs on your sun box. 5) You have to run enterprise-wide applications. Imagine supporting a directory service with thousands of entries. 6) Hardware reliability. At least in my experience ... 7) Labor is expensive. In that case, it is easier to administer one or two high-performance Sun boxes with lots of thin clients rather than installing tens/hundreds of linux on different generations of PCs. Being a linux person first, commands at Solaris might be different (and slightly inferior). Confusing at first but then you get used to it (eg netstat -atuvp vs. netstat -a -f inet). Of course, you can always install the GNU software companion. But then again, it is tar vs. gtar, grep vs. ggrep, etc., unless you invest time making aliases/symlinks. rowel On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, David B. Reyes wrote: > Hello to the PLUG Community, > > I would like to ask you linux users who also use > Solaris, if there is /are reasons to prefer Solaris > over Linux. > > We have only one Solaris server in the office, but my > boss is considering adding four more, or even changing > the linux PCs to Solaris. > > I'm only beginning to use Solaris, and have found the > directory structure slightly different, and there are > commands that are definitely different. > > With the already high learning curve of learning > linux, why should I also use Solaris, other than > because I have to? > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > http://sbc.yahoo.com > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
