> It tends to be applications driving the OS choice unless it supports multiple > OSes, > then performance/hardware costs become important and finally support costs.
half12, can you elaborate and give some examples of how applications drive the OS choice? I'm guessing that most DB2 / SAP shops would lean towards things like AIX and System Z Mainframes, but you don't have to use an IBM platform to run DB2. I've got customers in my datacenter who are running DB2 on Windows Server 2003, if you can believe that, and I think Microsoft themselves run SAP on Windows server platforms. And just because you run Oracle doesn't mean that you have to run Solaris, right? Oracle seems to be trying as hard as they can to cut all ties with Sun, even going so far Ironically, enough, most Java shops I've seen don't seem to be running Solaris, although they probably SHOULD be running Solaris because Java seems to run subjectively faster on Solaris than on other operating systems to me (maybe the Solaris marketing team should focus on targeting Java shops that run CentOS and point out that Solaris support only costs $300 a year, which is cheaper than RHEL support). The reason that I think most Java shops aren't running purely 100% Solaris is because Solaris needs better integration with IBM's Eclipse and with the "Spring Framework" if they want to attract all the JAVA developers (yes I personally like Netbeans IDE better, but Eclipse and the Spring Framework are what most younger programmers learned on when they were learning to program in the University and people feel most comfortable with what they know- old habits die hard- get people programming in Eclipse on Solaris first and then give them the sales pitch for Netbeans). I also know for a fact that MySQL runs faster on Linux than on Solaris because of the kind of screwed up way in which Linux allocates memory. I read an article about it in a Sun engineers blog, can't remember the URL off the top of my head though. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
