Em Sex, 2005-11-04 às 11:24 -0800, Andy Streich escreveu: > 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.
I worked a lot (2years/ 3 servers: Mail/Web/Firewall) with Sun stations using Solaris. Here in Brasil the Service offered by SUN is abysmal: No 24/24 help desk, they work from 9h to 17h Monday to Friday. Any question, really any question is only answered after they contact some central organisation: delay:24-48h. In the case of hardware failure we would have had to wait 3 (three) monthes before getting a new NIC (failure on the firewall SUN/Solaris+Checkpoint). At that point we switched to a self build PIV/Asus/3Com station running Debian./iptables. Mean delay for a community answer:~6h, and 24/24 7/7. Downtime in case of hardware failure: 1h, the time to go to a shop and by a new part. (And 3 monthes to get the money back from the University, but that's another problem). There's no doubts here: Open Systems are much superior to proprietary ones when you are far away from the owner. Michel.