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HotJobs Upgrades to FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the sysadmin-sought-send-resume dept.

bsdmike writes "DaemonNews has a link to an news article that reports that Yahoo! has saved something like $470,000 by switching HotJobs from Sun Solaris to FreeBSD. It's really amazing what affordable hardware and great Open Source technology can do!"

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  1. Solaris advocates can't argue out of a paper bag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    My general observation is that Solaris advocates can not argue their way out of a paper bag. Usually, they respond to my comments about the shaky future of Solaris with personal insults and no facts whatsoever.

    The fact of the matter is that each and every version of Linux is becoming more and more like Solaris. Linux 2.6 (3.0?) will have even more stability, scability, an enterprise-ready LVM, and some other features such as kernel crash dumps (finally!, but only in unofficial patches). IBM, SGI, and other big players are investing serious money in to Linux; Solaris' days are numbered.

    Linux won for the same reason SunOS won over ten years ago. Comparing SunOS to offerings such as VMS 10 years ago was indeed "laughable". NFS was a joke compared to other network file systems at the time. RPC was also pathetic. Sun only won because they were the most open solution; the scability that Solaris advocates see Solaris as haivng today only came later.

    Sun is losing sales, and Linux is gaining sales, because Linux is more open than Solaris; not because it is better. And, just as sun did, Linux is becoming more and more scalable.

    - Sam