Solaris 10

[Grant M.]

markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> Has anyone even looked at Solaris lately?

We actually sell it.

If you want all sorts of fancy desktops to choose from, the ability to 
run just about every possible GNU application with the click of a mouse, 
and updates once a week, install one of the mainstream Linux dists.

If you want a system that you can install (albeit, without all of the 
feel-good emoticons and such), run the recommended patches and forget, 
and still be able to do everything you need to do and have it work, then 
install Solaris-SPARC, and be done with it. We have Solaris 10 systems 
in the field that have been running unmolested since being installed in 
early 2007. In fact, it was just recently rebooted due to an AD groups 
issue, and it turned out that the problem was that AD had corrupted one 
of the groups, so Solaris wasn't able to parse it for those users that 
were members. Other than that, it just runs.

We have numerous RHEL3/4/5 installs in the field, and none of those have 
even close to the uptime of our Sun boxen.

It costs more (in both hardware & administration) to be reliable and 
consistent. If you absolutely, positively, need it to be up today, buy a 
_real_ enterprise platform. In my opinion, there are only really 3 left: 
Sun SPARC/Solaris, HP-UX, and IBM AIX. I can only speak for Solaris 
first hand. I believe that HP-UX has alot of features from True64 
(formerly DEC Unix), though. Sun SPARC is probably the least expensive 
of these, although I could be wrong about that. I believe it is also the 
most well-supported of the three by 3rd-party software vendors.

Thanks,
Grant M.
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Grant Mongardi
Senior Systems Engineer
NAPC

gmongardi at napc.com
http://www.napc.com/
781.894.3114 phone
781.894.3997 fax

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