So show me win 2003/2008 for sparc... On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Alexander <a...@rsu.ru> wrote:
> > To make a desktop OS work as a data center OS is not > > remotely the best engineering practice. Could you > > run Solaris 8 on a desktop? Sure. But why? It > > wasn't practical. Could you use Windows 95 as a > > server? Probably many did. But why? That wasn't > > its intended use. > And where is that Solaris now? The most widespread server enterprise OS are > Windows Server 2003/2008 and different Linux distributions. > It's the worst policy: "we are cool server OS for REALLY BIG SPARC > SERVERS". It made Solaris 10... not very popular. How many good Solaris > admins can you find? How much do they want to earn? And every student can > manage Windows 2003 after some months of training. It is like Win XP. (Yes, > it may have in some type different architecture, it's not easy to > administrate it correctly (as every other OS), but it looks familiar and > simple). > Linux was the most available Unix-like OS. And after people had tried it, > they didn't want to study commercial Unix (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and other > monsters). These OS looked unfamiliar and strange. > RedHat appeared as mass spread desktop Linux. Ubuntu is the most wide > spread desktop Linux - and now it goes to server market. I heard a lot some > wishes for Oracle to officially support Ubuntu Server... > And do you really say that Oracle will close OpenSolaris project? It is the > most stupid step they can do. The popularity of OS is determined not only by > its quality, but even more (do you remember Win 98 servers in SMB area ?) by > its community .... > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org >
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