>I've found Solaris and Redhat have very little to do with the >actual performance, most of it seems to be compiler dependent
You don't seem to have dealt with Java any time, have you? Compiler dependent, huh? That would be true for scientific applications running mostly in user space but if you ever dealt with real software deployed by businesses you would know that SPEC benchmarks such as jAppServer, JBB etc. matter and operating system scalability to deal with gigabytes of memory, tons of processors, and a load of network connections matters a lot. What makes you think SPEC is useless? Have you ever seen what they do with SPEC benchmarks? And I don't think we need to discuss Redhat and Sun support here. I reiterate that we are discussing scalability and performance in this thread - and also that I am not spreading FUD that Solaris and Sun support sucks because I know both are technically speaking good things and one should use what he/she likes and suits there need - no need to go into FUD mode or exclusivity. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
