On 5/19/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Initially Linux was not suitable for Enterprise
> deployments, but as
> time goes on Linux is acceptable, for more and more
> tasks. (Many times
> being the best choice).
One picks Linux "as the best choice" only if one doesn't know what one is
doing. It is as simple as that.
A real system engineer will have an engineered, standard run time platform to
run those tasks on, and can and will have prepackaged and preconfigured Solaris
packages, turning them into components that can be deployed and running on a
whim, non-interactively, without ever so much as logging into a system.
It's called system engineering. Everything else is called hacking. People engaging in the latter
are not fit to run the shop, and should consequently be denied employment, lest the IT organization
turns into "break-fix" "I don't know what he did and we don't know where he's gone
off to" mode.
> Maybe, instead of thinking about making Solaris more
> Linux like, we
> need to think of making Solaris suitable to a wider
> range of tasks.
> (Actually making it the most useful choice)
Solaris is currently (21st century) the most suitable platform for any
enterprise task.
No ifs, buts, or maybes.
It might not be "clicky-bunty" like Linux, but a real IT/CS professional never needed or used
"clicky-bunty" tools to begin with. And if I read about people running Linux for enterprise
workloads and complaining about lack of "clicky-bunty" in Solaris, I have to ask:
are we talking about IT professionals here, or just plain Joe Sixpacks?
<sarcasm>
Yeah all those "Joe six-pack" PhDs running Google are definitely not
"real IT/CS professionals". They are clearly not capable of "system
engineering", with degrees not worth the paper they are printed on. I
mean come on what kind of two bit organizations are these: CMU, MIT,
Stanford, Caltech, etc. They sound like a bunch of of "hackers" making
a mockery of the science of "systems engineering".
</sarcasm>
Seriously though, Solaris admins have a horrible reputation among the
open-source community. Some of the statements, are "arrogant",
"unfriendly", and "closed-minded". (At least those Solaris Admins who
haven't switched to Linux yet.)
Have we come so far from Unix's original goals, that we need to throw
rocks and get all frenzied when we see something different, or that we
don't understand.
"I think the Linux phenomenon is quite delightful, because it draws so
strongly on the basis that Unix provided. Linux seems to be the among
the healthiest of the direct Unix derivatives, though there are also
the various BSD systems as well as the more official offerings from
the workstation and mainframe manufacturers."
- Dennis M. Richie
(cocreator or the UNIX operating system)
cheers,
brian
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