We've been debating the merits of a possible IBM-Sun deal for a while now, and even Sun itself seemed to be in the dark as to if it would be a good idea to be bought by IBM. These debates are now all moot: in a surprise move (at least, I didn't see any speculation about it) Oracle has bought Sun Microsystems, at USD 9.50 a share, which equates to a total of 7.4 billion USD. The news got out through a press release.
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That link I provided talks about Google trying Solaris. Since then, Ive changed the link to point to the third page in that same article. If you click on your link again, it says that Linux crashes while Solaris dont.
The point is, Linux is unstable compared to Solaris. There are several such links. Such as this one, where he changes to Linux on the same hardware and suddenly everything works:
http://lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/77-Choosing-Solaris-10-over-Lin...
Or Linux doesnt scale well:
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,s...
"The problems we encountered were because Linux doesn't scale all that well," Rand said.
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The improvement is significant; with four compute nodes instead of five, Rand [SOLARIS] has more computing power and 99.99% uptime, compared with 97% uptime with RHEL, he said."
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,...
Because Solaris 10 is "lighter weight," meaning it's less intrusive on applications, performance has improved, Greenwade said.
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Philadelphia Stock Exchange Inc., has a new electronic options-trading system that runs on Solaris 10, which he said has improved trading capacity by 36%. Like Greenwade, he credited performance improvements to the TCP/IP stack, as well as improved multithreading support.
Thanks to Solaris, the stock exchange expects to reduce the amount of new hardware it needs to buy in order to scale up the trading system. "You can in effect scale within the same machine, as opposed to adding servers," Morgan said.
The point is, the companies compare Linux to Solaris and then Solaris wins. Ive yet to see a link from you showing that Linux wins over Solaris. The links Ive seen from you guys, shows that Linux wins over Windows. So what, any OS win over Windows.
Edited 2009-04-21 10:13 UTC
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2005-10-15
Ok maby i am stupid or something.
but can you please explain the relevance
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleB...
in your last post.
it could be about "I am talking about big installations.
but the article just deals with about a unconfirmd rumor that google is trying solaris.
oh and it did also contain some cloud/hosting computing business that switched.
but we still dont know if the error is with bsd/linux or that they used a crappy support company, and sun is a great company for support.
but i did fail to see anything about linux not being able to run on big installations.
And yes in your last post you did make the statement that it was only big installation machines you are talking about. but not in the others i still think that you should think about what the article say's and what you say.