On 26 Feb, Tony Green wrote: > The security issue you are talking about, in my opinion, is not a real issue > but a 'management issue'. They don't understand that the security through > obscurity which MS is pushing is not the way to go.
But there *are* security issues with Solaris (recently a rather intriguing exploit for login of all things), and the attitude of hushing up security issues by Sun is quite silly, and completely marketing/PR-driven. (A friend works for a large security company in the US, he's been told by his boss to stop hacking on Solaris because a) there are just too many exploits, and b) they just Don't Want To Know.) At least Linux developers, kernel and other, take security problem reports seriously and deal with them. Other than these issues, Grant, Solaris is quite a nice stable choice for production systems - has powerful clustering/database/etc, but really only suits quite high-end production/development systems. The nice thing about Solaris is if you pay enough money to Sun, you get really quite good support (in my experience, YMMV :). And the PHBs get peace of mind. :) But for your requirements, I'd go for Linux on x86 too - who needs platinum Sun support when you have this list? ;) Catie -- More humorous freshmeat contributors: "How do I get it out of my computer? disconnect does not work, It comes right back..I dont know how it got there in the first place...Thank you" --- http://www.liedra.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
