dtrace discuss - Dec 2007 - Linux defector says RHEL zero, Sun Solaris hero

*Leaving Linux for Solaris*
After two years of trying to make RHEL work, Rand had to move on. He 
looked closely at Solaris 10 and, after speaking with Sun engineers 
about a possible migration, decided to give Sun''s Startup Essentials 
<http://www.sun.com/emrkt/startupessentials/index.jsp> program a try.

"Being Linux people, we were hesitant to switch," he said. "We
didn''t
even consider [Microsoft] Windows 
<http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/default.mspx?WT.srch=1>, 
because we are open source," said Rand. "Sun set up some virtual
servers
for us to run tests, and we ported all of our apps onto those virtual 
servers. We did load testing, saw that it worked well and decided to go 
ahead with the migration."

Sapotek now runs Solaris 10 OS on Sun 4200 servers with 64-bit Advanced 
Micro Devices Inc. Opteron quad-core processors 
<http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8796_14286,00.html>,
along with Sun''s x4500 storage unit.


http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1286507,00.html



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At 1:13 PM -0800 12/19/07, Terri Molini wrote:
Leaving Linux for Solaris

Vaguely interesting, in a marketing sort of way, but this
isn''t really what I came to this list to see...

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