I’m really missing pre-Oracle Sun. Recently, my company decided to purchase many Sun Fire X4200 servers. We needed DC power supplies and nothing too powerful CPU wise. Less than 24 hours upon submitting an order, we decided we wanted to lower the amount of systems ordered. In order to do so, we would have to pay a 15% fee (on LIST price) of canceled systems. My company has been a Sun customer for many years, ordering millions of dollars of equipment. This is not a good way to make your customers happy. We decided to simply keep the order as is.
Additionally, we have been evaluating OpenSolaris for production purposes. We primarily use Solaris 10. OpenSolaris makes Solaris 10 look like a dinosaur, but Solaris 10 is proven and OpenSolaris isn’t exactly known to be used in major production environments. Before Oracle, Sun was very open and would talk about the product. Now, getting information is like pulling teeth. We are now considering abandoning the idea of using OpenSolaris in a production environment, just months prior to our planned rollout. We were also looking at Sun Open Storage as an alternative to some NetApp purchases, but once again, due to Oracles (in my opinion) shady business practices, we are going to abandon that also. It’s sad really. I really like Sun hardware, but I see my shop changing to HP or IBM in the future and transitioning off of Solaris 10. We have already started running a mix of Linux + Solaris. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
