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Solaris 10 to be Open Source
An anonymous reader writes "It looks as though Sun is going to open source their new Solaris 10 operating system. It seems to include eveything except some device drivers. They plan to model the Darwin and Fedora projects. Sounds very interesting."
Major commercial programs like Oracle, DB2, WebSphere MQ are supported on Solaris/sparc, but not Linux/sparc.
If you've got sparc hardware, x86 stuff is a downgrade path you don't want to follow.
Err, that's easy:
It's faster (approx. 30% : Sun to challenge Linux to a benchmarking duel shortly with Solaris 10)
It has N1 Grid Containers
At $99 It's cheaper than any enterprise Linux distro.
It scales better.
*Even* More secure than Linux
It's standard
Solaris 10 runs RH Linux apps efficiently
etc. etc. etc.
Exactly what I am wondering. Solaris is a descendent from the ATT/System V branch of the UNIX(tm) tree, not the BSD branch. They license the UNIX, not own the copyrights. Wouldn't they need permission from SCO (or Novell? ) and possibly a whole bunch of other people/corps/entities to really Open Source this stuff? Feels like heat, still looks dark.......
Last announcement about this was proven false by Sun's own CEO statments..
This will be the saem way with this announcement..
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Sun bought an special license from SCO, that lets them do whatever they want.
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If I had to choose between a Solaris install, or a Linux install, on it's own, with a live IP address, I'd choose Linux every time
A Solaris install on the Internet on its own would probably get rooted before the hour ran out. At least it would if you were to choose a full install.
I use solaris on most of my servers, but before entering production, you have to patch the hell out of it (last time I checked, the Solaris 8 patch cluster was like 50MB), install ssh, if needed, and close a bunch of services that are activated by default *and* reactivated upon patch application.
I usually play it safe and install ipfilter, just in case.
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parallel server was actually available in oracle 7, and possibly before. i know i was a dba for ops on 7.3 using the non-integrated dlm. it wasn't that bad for the large data warehouse we used it for.
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If you've got sparc hardware, x86 stuff is a downgrade path you don't want to follow.
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Unless you want to talk about cost. If your software only runs on Solaris and your customers are balking on buying because of the high cost of Sun servers, you certainly want to investigate porting to linux.
Solaris 1.x is SunOS 4.x, which is BSD-based.
Solaris 2.x is SunOS 5.x, which is System V-based.
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Sun should be doing this themselves - the Solaris package format is inferior and automatic dependency resolution should be expected.
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