Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 2nd Jun 2004 03:13 UTC
Sun introduced recently the second version of Java Desktop System (JDS) for a flat fee per employee/per year. We tried it and here is what we found out about:
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> Staroffice is just a modified Openoffice.org
OpenOffice is a spin off from StarOffice, not vice versa
> Many of the good things in Solaris are from other companies (Disksuite, Veritas, X, Gnome, CDE, et al)
DiskSuite was developed completely in house by Sun and wasn't brought in from any company. And none of the Veritas products were ever a part of Solaris. Check sources buddy before you post.
> If you work with Solaris and a well-configured Linux system, your eyes will snap open as to how kludgy Solaris is, despite all its vaunted stability.
If you work with Solaris and a Linux system, you eyes will snap out as to to botched and messed up Linux is when you need to patch something almost weekly and forced to move to a next kernel version almost monthly because of hectic and sporadic development surrounding Linux. In many cases you will need some exact kernel revision just to make the damn application run predicatably (Oracle9i anyone?). Solaris is far more stable, predicable, polished, better put together OS than Linux. Solaris is still a hard core Unix without the redhat-config-<blah> or yast utils that make noobs salivate, but nevertheless it is one hell of OS for servers.