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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adb/kdbg are pretty cryptic programs but they are useful, no doubt. There *is* kernel debugging in Linux, but I'm not going to explain to you how it all works. Go do the research into how the Linux kernel is progressing.
Disksuite was previously a product that needed to be purchased, and became part of the Solaris distribution disks at a later date. Now it's built into the product. I have Solaris distributions dating back to 1992 in my closet, how 'bout you?
Regarding Solaris 9 and all these fantastic packages that are supposedly without parallel in the Linux world... please elaborate. System partitioning: user mode linux. WBEM: many packages. LVM: needs polish but there. Veritas: available. Your comment about UFS being stable and having decent performance is laughable... it's definitely mature but it's not atomic, journalling is stone-age, performance is pathetic compared to XFS/ReiserFS/etc. I have an Ultra 250 here that could not come withing 20% of the performance of four (0+1 RAID) Linux/ReiserFS drives with its 12 (twelve! 0+1 RAID) drives using UFS+logging. I did many real-world tests between the two and the Linux system, which was less than 1/4 the price (Dual Athlon) - the Ultra 250 was utterly stomped... fully patched running Solaris 9 with scalability params tweaked. On the down side, I was not able to get Linux to work properly on the Ultra 250, it had trouble seeing all the drive partitions on reboot; linux' version of NFS is not perfect either.
It's obvious you haven't actually compared the two in place with competent administration. I mean, really, really obvious.
Now, as far as having systems that run forever using the Solaris kernel, I won't dispute that. It's why I was a big Sun fan in the mid to late 90s and sold their product, including what was their *FIRST* ill-fated install of a large Javastation network (Sun dropped the ball - period). But you're a fool if you don't acknowledge that Solaris moves glacially slow in bringing new features and performance, that it is hamstrung by its ancient/unsupported GNU development utils, that it has archaic package/patch management features, that it has buggy text utilities, etc. Solaris is stable in many senses, no doubt, and for the 24/7 enterprise backroom that can be a good thing - I don't dispute that; however, that's a pretty small market that Sun is having trouble keeping above water in.
Ugh. Why do I bother.