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Fri, 25 Apr 2008

Solaris vs 'Have you ever kissed a girl?'

As started by Ted Tso.

We forgot the answer:

No, but I can kiss the sky
He was 22 that days? :)

From my developer's point of view Solaris first sucks because of its contributor agreement. There is no way I can devote my time to organization, which will get my work for free and do whatever they want with it without my opinion as author (Actually the same applies to BSD-style at some degree. Yes, that can be trivial greediness).

It is not _that_ bad OS, but there is no known practice in modern medcine of deadman awakening.
Slolaris has its niche, but that's it, although Linux can be tuned to be faster (or if it has some bugs, they can be fixed) in that areas, but that does not matter, people who make decisions already know that they want.

Pseudo openness of the Solaris is just a marketing noise. Those who want to hear it will hear just that, no matter how things are in real life.

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Craig Perry wrote at 2008-04-25 15:49:

Ignoring what's "technically better", Solaris, and for that matter AIX & HPUX, are mature and incredibly rock solid in comparison with linux.

It is my view that stability is more important that speed for certain applications (database), and for others speed is more important than stability (farm of web servers).

I don't have hard facts & figures for you, but it is my experience that Linux on x86 & x64 fails catastrophically approx 80% more often than Solaris on Sparc.

I'm basing this on my Trouble Ticket queue with 3 years data for around 500 Solaris hosts of various sizes (from V490s up to Fire 25ks), versus ~2,000 linux nodes mostly of the IBM HS-40 / HS-20 variety, with ~300 HP DL-585s which are newer kit application server type kit.

To some extent it's comparing apples and oranges but the 585's compare well with v490s for example.

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