on 3-7-2008 5:44 AM Les Mikesell spake the following:
And the Sun server hardware was very good at what it did at the time. There wasn't any x-86 hardware that could touch it. Besides, nothing could burn through an IT budget like a couple of Sparc 20's. ;-PAndreas Pedersen wrote:I'm also interested into learning more about other system as well, my question is what should I take a closer look in Solaris? Things like why people choose Solaris over Linux.Solaris puts a lot of effort into maintaining backwards compatibility. With Linux, things as fundamental as device names change routinely and you often have to have to recompile things between versions. Centos is pretty good about this within a major release, but the long support life of those releases is an exception in the Linux world and you still find big differences between the major release versions that don't always maintain compatibility.
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