Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the sunshine-lollipops-and-rainbows dept.
ptolemu writes "The Register has the scoop on Sun's latest iteration of Solaris. The article includes some details of the new and improved features that will be included in the OS. The OS is scheduled to be released in the second half of 2004."
"Solyaris" by Tartovsky
by
mumblestheclown
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· Score: 0, Troll
Wow. Solaris is so far off the radarscope of present computing these days that my first reaction to the headline was that there was going to be a followup to that clooney remake of the tartovsky film and that for some reason it would be cleverly numbred in binary (ie 10). Maybe this is funny (maybe not), but that was my honest first impression.
Solaris: all the craptitude of unix with all the benefits of vendor-lock in and high prices!
in the solaris shop we had a dramatic failure of a storedge sena array. i called the sun support line and a guy in tweed jacket was at my door in 40 minutes with a grocery bag full of spare parts (gbic cards, if you care). the problem was solved in a total time of one hour.
And if you had bought Linux machines for the same amount of money, you could have bought so many extra machines that you could have just pulled that machine, dumped it in the trash, and gone on merrily with your work.
in the linux shop i made a web support request for a very simple question (that being: is stronghold bundled with rhel es like the marketing material says? it doesn't seem to be... anyone know?).
Well, how much money are you paying RedHat? Anywhere near what you are paying Sun? Even within two decimal orders of magnitude? I suspect not. For what you are paying Sun, you could get stellar Linux support if you wanted to. But somehow, you have concluded that it's OK to pay a lot of money to Sun for service, but that it's not OK to pay a lot of money for Linux service.
Also consider yourself lucky that you have not experienced Sun at their worst yet: yes, they, too, sometimes have less than stellar service even though you pay them a bundle.
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Solaris: all the craptitude of unix with all the benefits of vendor-lock in and high prices!
in the solaris shop we had a dramatic failure of a storedge sena array. i called the sun support line and a guy in tweed jacket was at my door in 40 minutes with a grocery bag full of spare parts (gbic cards, if you care). the problem was solved in a total time of one hour.
And if you had bought Linux machines for the same amount of money, you could have bought so many extra machines that you could have just pulled that machine, dumped it in the trash, and gone on merrily with your work.
in the linux shop i made a web support request for a very simple question (that being: is stronghold bundled with rhel es like the marketing material says? it doesn't seem to be... anyone know?).
Well, how much money are you paying RedHat? Anywhere near what you are paying Sun? Even within two decimal orders of magnitude? I suspect not. For what you are paying Sun, you could get stellar Linux support if you wanted to. But somehow, you have concluded that it's OK to pay a lot of money to Sun for service, but that it's not OK to pay a lot of money for Linux service.
Also consider yourself lucky that you have not experienced Sun at their worst yet: yes, they, too, sometimes have less than stellar service even though you pay them a bundle.
Is this a new Sun distro of Linux?
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