Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Jun 2006 16:05 UTC, submitted by _DoubleThink_
This paper tries to compare Linux vs. Solaris. Its author comes to many conclusions, among which this is one of the more interesting: "All-in-all Solaris is a powerful, stable, conformant-to-standards OS that can run many open source applications as well as Linux, and some (mainly multithreaded applications) better than Linux. Like in the cases of Red Hat and Suse, the cost of support is extra, but it is more reasonably priced. Security patches are free which makes Solaris similar to Windows."
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At the start the author makes a similar claim, that Linux is no longer free, and that Solaris is now free, and that support is cheaper from Sun.
What rubbish. SuSE Linux and RedHat is what Microsoft and Sun like to talk about because, yes, they are commercial organisations.
In addition, the author failed to mention the source code of Red Hat Enterprise (not sure about SUSE) are available for download under GPL license allowing the existance of other distros such as Scientific Linux, CentOS to name a few.