On Friday 04 August 2006 01:18 pm, Rich Teer wrote: > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Alan DuBoff wrote: > > Truely, to make comments like that towards Sun is really grasping for > > straws. > > ... and smacks of desparation.
Our community should take it as a compliment. There is quite a bit of interest being generated in Solaris...DTrace, ZFS, Zones....folks are now starting to realize that Sun has not been sitting on their @$$ for the past few years. The fact that some geezer from IBM made comments about OpenSolaris should be welcomed. There is no bad press, IMO, and it does get our name out there. Quite honestly, I wish everyone would start talking about how fsck'd up Sun is and how bad OpenSolaris is. It would give people more reason to download and install it to see just how bad Sun fsck'd up on it. You are after all free to do that now!<wink> At OSCON I was talking to the main engineer at Splunk. Was encouraging to hear such great words towards Solaris. Was really surprised to hear that Solaris x64 is the best performing systems in their labs, and they support *BSD, Linux, Solaris, Mac OSX, and other flavors of *ix. Solaris running on Opteron was their best performing systems. Solaris SPARC was their worst performing systems.:-( I don't know too many details, but suffice to say that they seem like bright people, and I know one of the people over there as a good friend and colleague, so it might have something to do with the database on the backend they use. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
