> It's promising to see that Mac OS X, a strong BSD > UNIX, is looking > more and more like Solaris with every new release. Go > play with > Leopard if you get a chance. > > -john >
Yes, Mac OS is probably trying to catch up with Solaris. But do you think Solaris will be allowed to stand still? :-) A comparison b/t Solaris and the MacOS is a indeed healthy one, but the battle ground should be in the [B]desktop[/B] area, particularly in business desktops. If you choose your hardware judiciously, Solaris 10 should be the [B]preferred[/B] desktop OS for businesses. It's definitely not sexy, but this is actually a very positive point. A sysadm or CIO should open his/her mind and take a very careful and critical look at what a Solaris desktop has to offer (especially considering running a thin client system in conj with a Solaris server) versus other OSes. BTW I have noted that the price of a SunRay client has come down to a very reasonable level. (It's of course still high for individual users, but should be considered reasonable for businesses.) A SunRay client could save at least 100W per machine. In Oahu, we are paying about 25 cents per KWH (neighbor islands are paying much more). This translates to roughly 25 cents per day or about $90+ a year per machine. As a rule of thumb, the air conditioning cost is at least double that of desktop machine's utility cost. Thus, in about a year or so, the savings in energy cost could pay for the machine itself. But in terms of reducing office noise and reducing our guilty feeling about contributing to global warming, the benefits are much more. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
