> > He's pointing out how the rest of the universe outside of Sun sees > > Linux. I can't say I disagree with him on his point. Not that *I > > personally* see Linux as a safe bet, but that decision makers > > definitely do. The tech press (which lots of CIOs read) > portrays Linux > > in a good light to the IT world, that's for sure. > > I completely agree. Linux is considered a safe bet by many, > since it is talked about and the momentum of it continues to snowball. [...]
We are a big Linux/SAP customer, running Linux wherever it makes sense. I recently played with SAP on Solaris/x86_64 in Zones and it's pretty awesome compared to what you can do on Linux. I wouldn't say we completely switch over to Solaris but certain systems will surely run in the future on Solaris just by the fact, that we can host them together easily on ONE box. If Linux is coming out sometimes soon with XEN we will also look in that type of virtualization and will decide, what fits our needs better. SAP on Linux works VERY well, has a good infrastructure to manage update accross multiple servers and is even well suited for the big boxes (DualCore 4-way systems with > 32 GB RAM). Our main production system is running Linux/IA64 instead of HP-UX because it did perform better and was easier to manage. So in fact there is no need for us to switch or even look at something different because we're quite happy, BUT in certain areas (especially when it comes to zones) Solaris has a big + on its side and it would be (in my eyes as an administrator) grossly negligent to ignore that fact just to stay with a homogeneous environment. A big minus is the non-intuitive setups of servers (LUNs, harddisks, partitions, slices, raw devices) - there is no single working (!) application for someone, who's not that familiar with cli to just format a disk or create soft partitions for a database raw device access. However, the the whole idea is not from the management but IT driven, my chief could live well with that one-box-one-application thing but out of my view there must be other ways. Just my EUR 0.02 -- Markus _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
