Oracle Abandoning Solaris?
Seems like every OS that gets to call itself “Unix” is either dead or dying... <http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-Solaris-Demise-Rumors>
When Oracle acquired Sun in 2010, then I thought it would provide leverage for Oracle when competing with SAP. Whereas SAP comes to the party with their enterprise management applications and consulting products, Oracle could now additionally provide server hardware, operating system and database products. It seems strange to me that Oracle would abandon an operating system, when this is a feature of its product suite advantage over SAP. Maybe they have found that Linux runs better on Sun servers and is cheaper ;-) cheers, Ian. ________________________________
On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 20:40:54 +0000, Ian Stewart wrote:
Maybe they have found that Linux runs better on Sun servers and is cheaper ;-)
I can remember, when I was in the early days of learning about Linux, coming across a post that, as I recall, was by Larry McVoy (he of BitKeeper), explaining how Linux could run faster than Solaris on Sun’s own SPARC hardware. I haven’t been able to find that again, but here <https://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/1996-05/msg00011.html> are some comments from the early days of the Linux SPARC port: After a couple of weeks tunning the port, Linux/SPARC was able to keep up against SunOS and Solaris on the same hardware and in some cases outperforming them. The lmbench results are more interesting than they may appear at first sight: They do not only reflect that Linux is a great operating system, but most sadly it reflects the fact that corporate operating systems are sometimes bloated and slow.
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