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By rick
via forbes.com
Published: Jun 17 2009 / 19:03
Oracle praised the Solaris operating system when it agreed to acquire its creator, Sun Microsystems, but the actual beauty of this fine piece of engineering was left unexplained. Here's a look at the advantages of Solaris for business computing and insights into what Oracle's long-term intentions may be for the operating system.
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LudoA replied ago:
This article is disgusting. It's 100% FUD. All of the things it says that Solaris can do and GNU/Linux can't are incorrect: GNU/Linux can do each of these. I first thought the writer was uninformed, but then it became so exaggerated that it seems the author is doing it on purpose.
Don't get me wrong, I like Solaris a lot, and one can argue that some of its features are better than GNU/Linux - but none of these differentiators are mentioned here. All the ones mentioned here aren't differentiators. The comparisons are incomplete or incorrect or misleading.
bwtaylor replied ago:
I use Linux every day at work and home, but I don't think this is all FUD. Some of these points are valid. Solaris does have absolutely "superior virtualization" at the moment. It also is better at extreme vertical scalability (though you're kind of dumb if you are solving your scalability this way), since that is its reason to exist. Solaris has some reliability features linux doesn't (though I'd say that point is a bit overstated). The others, especially security, are hard to defend with SELinux running around and Sun's spotty track record on patch promptness. The article ignores strenghts of linux: free as in both beer and freedom, an army of developers that no company can possibly compete with, and the fact that it is a de facto standard. So is the article balanced? No. But it isn't all just hooey either.
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