Comments on: Lighting a fire under Solaris

Two significant upgrades are coming to Solaris this year, but Linux remains a fearsome rival.

[baswwe]

Sun is almost as bad as Oracle..

It won't work right the first time and will take several releases after the initial screw up to get it fixed.

[are_you_sure]

a profound statement

Well what in IT has work right "the first time" and didn't take a few
releases to fix?

[baswwe]

Sun is almost as bad as Oracle..

It won't work right the first time and will take several releases after the initial screw up to get it fixed.

[zkysr]

Sun is almost as bad as your OS

What OS are you running that would post your post twice over a hour apart from each other. I mean you can't be that dumb that it is you that did that and not your computer. Looks like something is not working right the first time.

Solaris has always worked for me, I have a SparcStation 20 from 1995 running Solaris 8, that I have never had a problem with and still works better than a lot of computers I have that are not running Solaris and are only a few years old.

[The Wiethoff]

Hey Sun, You workin the right Solaris improvements?

I've been using Solaris for a decade, and I can tell you why I am considering to migrated tons of servers off of it.

1. Driver support. Tons of legacy drivers I need are not available on Solaris 10 or backward compatible from earlier drivers. This means I have to buy new hardware to upgrade the OS.

2. Whats the deal with the install process, it seems the same as in 1996 when I first starting using it. Compare this with say Fedora Core 5 install and count the hundreds of usability differences.

Have a super day

[J. D. Giel]

Better use of Suns resourses

Sun would serve their Solaris customers far better by purchasing SWSoft and its Virtuozzo operating system based virtual software. It's at least 2 years development wise ahead of the solaris container system, is highly efficient in using a computers resources, has extremely good security, and has well laid out and easy to use management interfaces.
Sure an operating system level virtual system can only produce virtual copies of the parent operating system but for Sun's high end customers who need the power of the Sparc based systems this would be a god sent. Additionally, Sun would benefit from their taking over sponsorship of the OpenVZ OS virtualization project which is associated with the Virtuozzo product and is working to provide this capability as an open source solution to the Linux kernel..Heck, placing this into Suse Linux and Ubuntu would enable Sun to offer their AMD xx86-64 based hardware for use in their old traditional Internet strong holds running either Solaris or Linus 6 to 9 months before their hardware rivals
Of course none of this is going to happen if Oracle winds up buying Sun cheep for both their operation system (Oracle DB still runs on more Solaris systems than any other operating system out there) as well as the Java system. Remember Suns stockholders said 'NO' to the adoption of a poison pill to ward off any take over attempt and Suns stock is extreamly cheep.