On Friday 04 November 2005 09:11 am, Mike McCarty wrote: > On the whole, I'm happy with Linux. But in a side-by-side comparison, > IMO Solaris is superior. > > No flames, please.
You are wise to include the "no flames" request. As always this is as more of an emotional issue for many people than an intellectual or economic one. In asking what's best or what's superior you have to state for what intended purpose. I think it would be hard to make a case for Solaris being the best OS to run on your workstation at home or your typical webhost when Debian GNU/Linux is available. But if your company is doing high volume stock and banking transactions, Solaris may very well be the best. In both cases it's not just about the technical quality of the OS -- although that's critically important -- it's also about the available community support. In the former case the community is the essentially the people on this mailing list. In the latter, I'd much prefer to look to -- and pay for -- the community of engineers at Sun. (One way in which Sun distinguishes itself is that it is still a company where engineers dominate, as opposed to Microsoft, as someone else mentioned, which is purely marketing driven. Sadly the results can be seen in their stock prices.) I doubt many people on this list have much experience working in high-volume, financial transaction environments where minutes of downtime correspond to millions of dollars lost. It's not reasonable IMO to expect OSS to serve that market -- yet. As Mike wrote: No flames, please. But I'd be very interested in what others thing about this. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]