Hal Stern interview on Solaris & Linux Datacenter

m3ntos writes "Hal Stern from Sun gets interviewed on Solaris and Linux pricepoints in the datacenter, among other things. What is going to replace the margin included with all those unused cycles in the datacenter?"

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Sun / Microsoft relationship is a bit more clear..

[uid100]

I appreciate the pointed questioning regarding MS and Sun's relationship.

"InfoWorld: So a Windows system could show up as an N1 resource?"
"Stern: No, that's not part of the development plan."

Also interesting to note that Sun's executives position on Linux is "we will jump on it if corp. America puts their core IT budget money into it, otherwise we stick with Solaris".

I see a lot of what Sun's 2-4 year plan is in this article, or at least what they'd like it to be.

Hal Stern has been around for a while ...

[xmas2003]

For those that don't know him, Hal Stern has been associated with Sun for a long time and is one of the "sharp good" guys IMHO. He's written several Sysadmin related books including the classic "Managing NFS and NIS" and here's a 1995 Sysadmin article where he dives into adb - clearly a technical guy who knows his stuff ... although the article is more about marketing and pricing.

Re: Usefulness of a firewall

[uid100]

I agree, a firewall will have a place for the forseable future. The mail point however is to protect against mis-configured equipment or old, unpatched equipment. Most big Oracle shops I've known like to run at least one major version behind on their OS platform and don't patch the OS regularly. It's not uncommon to see new implementations of Oracle going in right now with Solaris 8 or even 2.6 running Oracle 8i. They don't even touch the /etc/inetd.conf.
This is where firewalls become very useful.