I work in a largescale environment with virtually every unix under the sun. The majority is Sun on largescale hardware, E4500's and up, and we generally have little to no problems with them, other than the usual custom software the client write crashing the server from bs overflows, etc. We also house mainframes (And run Suse in development there in). The sun hardware performs wonderfully, and most of the large scale applications like Oracle run quite smoothly on these machines, as well as HPUX.
Sun may be increasing costs but to the end user I don't think it's going to make a huge difference, companies may be taking a hit, but quite often they still won't run Linux on Sun hardware, because of the whole responsibility matrix and companies wanting to point the finger.
Truth be told when people swallow those costs of buying an E450 and above, they generally won't care that they are paying $400+ for the OS that is housed on it, especially when they will only have to call one place when something goes wrong... sun.
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I work in a largescale environment with virtually every unix under the sun. The majority is Sun on largescale hardware, E4500's and up, and we generally have little to no problems with them, other than the usual custom software the client write crashing the server from bs overflows, etc. We also house mainframes (And run Suse in development there in). The sun hardware performs wonderfully, and most of the large scale applications like Oracle run quite smoothly on these machines, as well as HPUX.
Sun may be increasing costs but to the end user I don't think it's going to make a huge difference, companies may be taking a hit, but quite often they still won't run Linux on Sun hardware, because of the whole responsibility matrix and companies wanting to point the finger.
Truth be told when people swallow those costs of buying an E450 and above, they generally won't care that they are paying $400+ for the OS that is housed on it, especially when they will only have to call one place when something goes wrong... sun.