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Re: Rumour: Google Experiments with OpenSolaris

  • Subject: Re: Rumour: Google Experiments with OpenSolaris
  • From: "Larry Qualig" <lqualig@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 22 Sep 2006 07:18:07 -0700
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thad01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I have heard it said that OpenSolaris scales better to lots of CPUs than
> > Linux (currently) does--more fine-grained parallelism in the kernel.
>
> Perhaps google is looking for someone to help improve the high end
> scalability of Linux?  Improve the multiprocessor support maybe?
> It makes sense to fish of off Sun's pier if thats the type of talent
> you are looking for.

Sun has been doing this sort of thing before Linus ever wrote his first
line of Linux code. Sun systems are very scalable and reliable. Take a
look at what most large companies run on their backend high-volume,
high-reliability systems and it's usually either a mainframe or
Solaris. (Not to discount AIX or anything.)

Linux is good and reliable and works for non mission critical systems
like mail servers, web-servers etc. But currently most large companies
still use time proven OS's for their must-have mission critical
applications. Simply put, they are more mature.


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