"Hot on the heals of Oracle's revamp of Solaris support, the licensing agreement for free downloads of Solaris 10 have changed. Here is the bit in question: "...Please remember, your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is limited to a trial of 90 days, unless you acquire a service contract for the downloaded Software". So far the OpenSolaris license has not changed, it's still CDDL."
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"Write down a list of 10 applications which really scales better on [Solaris]. I think you couldn't because those are all inhouse developed applications what you never heard of."
A quick google found SAP. How about SAP? That is not an inhouse app, no? The Linux machine used faster CPUs, and faster RAM, and still was slower than Solaris on enterprise SAP benchmark, on 48 core machines. Linux scales well to 4 sockets or so. But above that, Linux has problems.
http://download.sap.com/download.epd?context=B1FEF26EB0CC34664FC7E8...
http://download.sap.com/download.epd?context=40E2D9D5E00EEF7CCDB058...
I think it says it all, when you claim you have no real experience of Solaris and still down talk it. It is really funny. Some Linux guy sits with his dual core at home and never has any problems, and therefore he concludes that Linux scales well? Jesus. It is a whole different thing to handle massive loads. Linux sucks on big loads, or trying to handle load on as few as 48 cores. Amateurs.
http://www.mattheaton.com/?p=222
Linux sucks as a file server says a Storage Expert
http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/sans/features/article.php/374...
http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/sans/features/article.php/374...
SEGEDUNUM
There are several Linux shops that switches to Solaris. If you didnt knew that, I am sorry for you.
"Linux does not scale well, so we switch to Solaris"
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,s...
Linux overcommits RAM by default. That is horrendously bad. Linux allows you to use more RAM than the swap file allows. Then Linux will kill processes randomly. How good is that for stability?
http://opsmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/01/linux-memory-overcommit.html
And Linux unstable ABI, how good is that for stability? Upgrade something, and something else crashes. Soon you will have upgraded everything.
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We already talked about iOS 7 yesterday (after a night of sleep, it's only looking worse and worse - look at this, for Fiona's sake!), so now it's time to talk about the downright stunning and belly flutters-inducing new Mac Pro. As former owner and huge, huge, huge fan of the PowerMac G4 Cube - I haven't been this excited about an Apple product since, well, I would say the iMac G4. This is the Apple I used to love.
Apple held its big keynote event thing at WWDC earlier this evening, but since I was away with friends I've had to read up on it later in the evening. The company announced iOS 7, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and they gave a preview of the new Mac Pro. Especially the Mac Pro impressed me, and while iOS 7's new Holo/Metro-inspired theme looks messy and garish to me, I do commend Apple for finally breaking the mold. This news item will focus on iOS 7 - I'll dive into the Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 tomorrow (it's late here now).
And yes, the PRISM scandal is far, far from over. More and more information keeps leaking out, and the more gets out, the worse it gets. The companies involved have sent out official statements - often by mouth of their CEOs - and what's interesting is that not only are these official statements eerily similar to each other, using the same terms clearly designed by lawyers, they also directly contradict new reports from The New York Times. So, who is lying?This story is getting bigger and bigger. Even though most Americans probably already knew, it is now official: the United States government, through its National Security Agency, is collecting the communications and data of all American citizens, and of non-Americans using American services, through a wide collaboration with the large companies in technology, like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on. Interestingly enough, the NSA itself, as well as the US government, have repeatedly and firmly denied this massive spying on Americans and non-Americans took place at all.Ah, patents - the never-ending scourge of the technology industry. Whether wielded by companies who don't actually make any products, or large corporations who abuse them because they can't compete in the market place or because they're simply jerks, they do the industry a huge disservice and are simply plain dangerous. According to The Wall Street Journal (circumvention link), president Obama is about to take several executive actions to address patent trolls - which may seem like a good idea, but I am very worried that all this will do is strengthen the positions of notorious patent system abusers such as Apple and Microsoft.
With version 13.05, the developers of the Genode OS Framework take measures to ensure that Genode continues to scale well with a growing number of users and the steadily broadening platform coverage. Further highlights are the improved SoC support for Exynos 5, OMAP4, Raspberry Pi, i.MX, and new components for realizing headless systems.At the D11 conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook once again took the stage to be interviewed by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. While most of the interview can be replicated by picking and reading 10 random Apple fanblog stories - there were still a number of very interesting things that warrant some closer scrutiny.
So, the Xbox One disaster continues. Microsoft's policy for dealing with the used games market has reportedly leaked - and it's a clear and direct attack to destroy the used games market. Prices for used games will be set at the retail value of a new game, and retailers have to hook into Microsoft's computer systems and comply with Microsoft's terms and conditions.At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!
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"Super high" loads like what? scientific applications?
I had linux and bsd servers with super high loads mostly used for lamp, web loadbalancers and they do just as well.
The only reason why Solaris, AIX still has market because some mission critical systems are built with them and they provide abilities such as hotswapping cpus,memory etc. or keep running in case of kernel panic.
I never had to work with solaris more than install and maintain it but my opinion is that its a major crap system and all the pros I heard from people like you is exactly like this.
80% of the ISPs use solaris, for what?
Asterisk works better on solaris, orly?
Write down a list of 10 applications which really scales better on it. I think you couldn't because those are all inhouse developed applications what you never heard of.
Edited 2010-03-30 23:14 UTC