Correction; NT was not "Built off of OS/2" but was designed by David Cutler based on concepts in VMS. About the only commonality between OS/2 and NT is their shared heritage of compatibility with MS-DOS.
Expanding on a previous comment:
A 1970's IBM project, System/R, developed "Structured English Query Language" shortened to "SEQUEL", and later changed to SQL. The CORRECT pronunciation of "SQL" is still "sequel". Saying "ess kew ell" is the sign of a newbie. Not that there's anything wrong with newbies, until they get fresh about things they don't know about.
See e.g. http://www.faqs.org/docs/ppbook/c1164.htm
Solaris is far more limiting to specific architectures than Linux is. In fact Solaris/Intel is a real dog, has always had limited hardware compatibility and Sun's Intel boxes are simply too expensive.
They do seem to bear comparison with Dell at this point.
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My company has done some market research for Sun, and we attended Sun's VIP Day presentations at LinuxWorld.
Here is some information I gleaned from the presentations, Sun's website, and the LX50 documentation:
Kernel version: 2.4.9-31
Apache version: 1.3.22
Tomcat 3.2.1
J2SE SDK 1.4
SunOne ASP (Chilisoft ASP) 3.6.2
Red Hat 7.2 ships with the 2.4.7 kernel and with Apache 1.3.20, so Sun has done some buffing of the distribution. It may be 7.2 with errata applied. 2.4.9-31 is Red Hat's recommended kernel for 7.2; it closes the zlib vulnerability.
The Sun/Chilisoft ASP support normally sells for $495.
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OS/2 - Co-built with IBM
NT / XP / Vista - Built off of OS/2
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Correction; NT was not "Built off of OS/2" but was designed by David Cutler based on concepts in VMS. About the only commonality between OS/2 and NT is their shared heritage of compatibility with MS-DOS.
Expanding on a previous comment: A 1970's IBM project, System/R, developed "Structured English Query Language" shortened to "SEQUEL", and later changed to SQL. The CORRECT pronunciation of "SQL" is still "sequel". Saying "ess kew ell" is the sign of a newbie. Not that there's anything wrong with newbies, until they get fresh about things they don't know about. See e.g. http://www.faqs.org/docs/ppbook/c1164.htm
I got one of thesefor $1.25+shipping.
Mine was defaced with orange spray paint (cleaned up easily with acetone).
It has a nice 85W power supply which is ample for a mini-ITX system.
I needed this to install an M6000 motherboard. The front panel connectors need modification too.
It's not ideal, but great for the price.
Solaris is far more limiting to specific architectures than Linux is. In fact Solaris/Intel is a real dog, has always had limited hardware compatibility and Sun's Intel boxes are simply too expensive.
You might want to check the pricing on Sun's new Intel servers.
They do seem to bear comparison with Dell at this point.
My company has done some market research for Sun, and we attended Sun's VIP Day presentations at LinuxWorld.
Here is some information I gleaned from the presentations, Sun's website, and the LX50 documentation:
Kernel version: 2.4.9-31
Apache version: 1.3.22
Tomcat 3.2.1
J2SE SDK 1.4
SunOne ASP (Chilisoft ASP) 3.6.2
Red Hat 7.2 ships with the 2.4.7 kernel and with Apache 1.3.20, so Sun has done some buffing of the distribution. It may be 7.2 with errata applied. 2.4.9-31 is Red Hat's recommended kernel for 7.2; it closes the zlib vulnerability.
The Sun/Chilisoft ASP support normally sells for $495.
For more information, see our market brief.
My company has done some market research for Sun, and we were present at Sun's VIP Day presentations at LinuxWorld.
Here is some information gleaned from the presentations, Sun's website, and the LX50 documentation:
Kernel version: 2.4.9-31
Apache version: 1.3.22
Tomcat 3.2.1
J2SE SDK 1.4
SunOne ASP (Chilisoft ASP) 3.6.2
Red Hat 7.2 ships with the 2.4.7 kernel and with Apache 1.3.20, so Sun has done some buffing of the distribution.
For more information, see http://www.sealrock.com/lx50_sealrock_brief.pdf
Nice post, but the high-res image is a modest .jpg. Here's a link to JPL, where you can download the 2MB .tif:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/wfpc/index.html