HotJobs Upgrades to FreeBSD

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!"

Comments

Re:Solaris is slowly dying

[jason_watkins]

Sun is on the wrong end of an economic trend. If they don't re-invent themselves, they'll become trapped in a slowly dieing (heh) nitch.

The fact is, for the enterprise tasks most people would buy sun, these days the tasks parellelize well enough to run them on a cluster of commodity pc hardware. It isn't as reliable, but when you can afford a staggeringly larger number of resources, redundancy becomes very cheap.

Much like vector supercomputers became impactical for most workloads, replaced by beowulf style clusters, sun' hardware will be relegated to areas where massively parellel shared memory architectures are key. The final nail in sun's coffin will be when an x86 chip can address large memories.

Re:Solaris is slowly dying

[Shanep]

Please tell, what is this mythical "high end processing environment" that I keep hearing about?

I am not arguing with you. But the "high end processing environment" that I know Sun practically owns, is the financial sector. Stock Broking and Banking. Linux is coming up really fast on the desktop in the Stock Broking area though.

Reality shows that technical details mean NOTHING in the corporate world. People in these sorts of environments continue to use what they trust, what they've trusted for many years. Products that have barely ever softened this trust.

I have tried to deploy OpenBSD bridge firewalls and have been met with rejection by people with high technical prowess, because they fear that using OpenBSD for firewalls, moves the perceived accountability from, say Cisco, to themselves.

Forget what the EULA's might say, forget that they (Cisco) most likely wash their hands of even the highest negligence and forget how technically brilliant the free solution might be.

This situation of course, disgusts me.