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Sun Announces Support for PostgreSQL

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the open-for-business dept.

jadavis writes "Sun announces 24x7 support for PostgreSQL on Solaris 10. From the article: 'Today Sun announced that it will be integrating the Postgres open source data base into the Solaris 10 OS and providing world-wide 24x7 support for customers who wish to develop and deploy open source database solutions into their enterprise environments. Sun is working with the PostgresSQL community to take advantage of the advanced technologies in the Solaris 10 OS, such as Predictive Self-Healing, Solaris Containers and Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace).'"

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  1. Much bigger than just Postgres by axonis · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This announcement is much bigger than just Postgres Integration, it also includes Xen virtualisation and Red package application support. This will surely make Solaris more attractive than RedHat now on x86-64

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  2. Re:Progressive... by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually, their premium 24x7 support is $360 per socket (not core). That's pretty goddam great for a big-boy operating system AND (now) database support.

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  3. Re:An honest question. by LizardKing · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Who uses Solaris 10?

    I assume you mean "uses it instead of Linux", what with this being Slashdot. How about people who've benchmarked it against Linux and found Solaris to scale better and more smoothly? Some of us like having beefy Sparc or Opteron SMP machines that perform predictably with Solaris, rather than the erratic behaviour we've seen with Linux on SMP Intel hardware. The 2.6.x Linux kernel has also been a serious disappointment in terms of reliability, a definite step back from 2.4.x.