Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ BearItAll ] on Tuesday 06 February 2007 13:40 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> Unix vendors get creative in face of Windows, Linux competition
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>>> | "People wanted to go to Linux," says Min Kang, director of IT at the
>>> | firm in El Segundo, Calif.
>>> |
>>> | With Unix maturing out of its expensive, big server days into more
>>> | flexible packages that, in Sun?s case, can even run on competitors'
>>> | hardware, Kang and his team had broader options.
>>> |
>>> | Today, the company's Web sites, which get about 15 million unique
>>> | visitors monthly, are supported primarily by Dell servers running
>>> | Solaris.
>>> |
>>> | "This gives us freedom because Solaris on x86 runs on pretty much
>>> | anything: you can run it on HP, you can run it on Dell -- you can
>>> | choose your hardware. But then you also get the reliability of
>>> | Solaris support and that's my main thing -- support," Kang says.
>>> | "If Sun didn't have Solaris 10 on x86 we would probably have gone
>>> | to Linux."
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/0205-7-special-focus.html
>>>
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>> I thought this would start to happen, that IT folk would see Solaris as a
>> real alternative to the big end servers. Solaris is a cracking product,
>> the only thing that held me back was that to be fair to Solaris it does
>> need a fairly meaty machine. That isn't because it is wastefull with
>> resources, it's just a bigger beast than your average Linux.
>>
>> I bet your left sock that as word of the capabilities of Solaris spread
>> it will be taken up big time.
>
> How will Sun Microsystems maintain profit? I suppose they could go for
> services, just like IBM...
>
Although UNIX was always expensive, you didn't change it very often, just
updates. So really a large part of the UNIX market was the support anyway.
Then the big boys of the UNIX world are already very well geared up for the
support of Linux systems.
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