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  1. 2 Solaris server == 120 NT servers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Economist notes Linux and Open Source
    Sun's Solaris propaganda factoid:

    • In an August 12, 1998 research note, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter reported on a Denver-based insurance company which cut costs by replacing 120 Windows NT systems with only two servers from Sun.




  2. SCSI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on ORB drives are claimed to be shipping
    No. It's really just a hard drive that you can carry in your pocket. You may need to tweak the SCSI BIOS if you want to boot off of it.

    I don't know about Linux, but on Solaris it will automagically mount by itself on /rmscsi. (You can get Solaris for near free $20 at http://www.sun.com/developers .

  3. Solaris lines of code by ChrisRijk · · Score: 1 · on Open Source Acid Test Revisted
    This is not in any way to an attempt to disagree about the accuracy of the excellent rebuttal article. Anyway, according to this Sun white paper Solaris 7 has 400,000 lines of code in the kernel, and 12 million for 'Solaris'.

    Look for "lines of code" in the text - it'll be the 2nd match. the white paper also suggests NT might have some trouble with it's 40 million lines of code, most of which is very recent.

  4. speaking for himself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Sun's Scott McNealy's advice: "get over" privacy
    In this case, you can bet your ass that Scott McNealy's comments do not reflect the opinions of his employees.

    Go to www.sun.com, and search on 'security'. Over 1700 matches.

    A good start might be http://www.sun.com/security/ .

  5. Strange article by ChrisRijk · · Score: 1 · on Workstations: Unix losing to NT
    I read this article back when it was originally published and through it was kinda weird, especially for Sun World. I've noticed that most of their recent articles have been kinda strange.

    Just as a side note, while the (commercial) Unix workstation market isn't moving much, Sun themselves are doing great - they're getting 20-50% growth in workstation/server shipments. Co-incidentaly, or not, they're also the only ones 100% committed to Unix.

    Take them with a bit of a pinch of salt, but here's some recent figures from Sun about workstation and server growth.

  6. Strange article by ChrisRijk · · Score: 1 · on Workstations: Unix losing to NT
    I read this article back when it was originally published and through it was kinda weird, especially for Sun World. I've noticed that most of their recent articles have been kinda strange.

    Just as a side note, while the (commercial) Unix workstation market isn't moving much, Sun themselves are doing great - they're getting 20-50% growth in workstation/server shipments. Co-incidentaly, or not, they're also the only ones 100% committed to Unix.

    Take them with a bit of a pinch of salt, but here's some recent figures from Sun about workstation and server growth.

  7. Solaris has no problems with this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on How can you run UNIX for ~150,000 users?
    http://www.sun.com/sims/

    "Sun Internet Mail Server can concurrently support a combined 120,000 POP3 and IMAP4 users on a single Sun UltraTM EnterpriseTM 6000 server. This means that an ISP provisioning for a maximum of 10% active users can host 1,000,000 total mailboxes on a single server."


    I've admin'd a system with between 5 and 8 thousand users logged into shell accounts at a time, with right around 80k users total. This was a 24-processor e10k domain and didn't seem to have any troubles with it.


    So long as you have the hardware to handle stuff, Solaris shouldn't have any trouble on the software side.

  8. All Workstations will be x86! EVERYWHERE! by BadlandZ · · Score: 1 · on SGI to sell 85% stake in MIPS

    Geeze. First you can't get a Sun Workstation (supported but no longer sold) at all anymore. Now MIPS is on it's way out. Who's next? If Compaq follows Sun's and SGI's lead, they will can the Alpha workstations too...

    Things are NOT looking up for x86 alternitives. Well, I guess the good news is that at least AMD is making things look good _in_ the x86 world. :-(

  9. Sun press release by ChrisRijk · · Score: 1 · on Solaris 7 on Simulated Merced Chip

    Here's Sun's press release

  10. Linux trademark by Gleef · · Score: 1 · on Linuxberg opens

    Zach Baker wrote:

    P.S. You know, it wouldn't be a bad idea for them to add under their copyright that Linux® is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

    Probably, but I don't think the ® is the appropriate symbol for the Linux trademark, that is for Register marks. I think it's supposed to be TM.

    For an example, look at Sun's Logo page. Sun's corporate logo gets an ®. The words "Sun", "Solaris" and "Java" get TM's, as does the Solaris and Java logos (the TM in the Java logo is only 2 pixels high, it's under the right edge of the saucer).

    Since "Linux" is not a registered corporation, it would get a TM, not an ®.

  11. Wasn't SUN first? by djarb · · Score: 1 · on MS unveils Universal Plug and Play @ CES
    Jini is already available for free download from Sun
    It's all done in a few thousand lines of publicly available Java source code.
    It uses TCP/IP.
    The protocol that it uses on top of TCP/IP is clearly specified rather than "de-commoditized".
    We're allowed to modify the source.
    It works.

  12. Pricing of Operating Systems by Fred+Lee · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Overcharged Industry US$10B
    From the cnet news.com article:
    Windows 98 upgrade sells for about $88 while IBM's OS/2 Warp upgrade is $149 and Sun's Solaris 2.6 Intel operating system is $380, Microsoft said.

    Something must be screwed up in my head. Last time I check, Windows 98 was/is designed for personal use (NT supposedly for the networked business environment, but that's another story). I don't know; maybe this Slashdot article five months ago (doesn't "sells" indicate the present, as in "a lot sooner than a week ago"?) about Solaris 2.6 (Solaris 6?) being free ("free beer") for personal use (except for the $15~$40 shipping & handling costs) were just illusions and figments of my imagination.

    Also, why is W98 upgrade compared to OS/2 upgrade and to full Solaris 6? (For that matter, I don't know anyone that would use Solaris 6 as a mere desktop OS unless they're totally hard-core. Server, I can understand, but personal desktop?)