Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?
Em Sex, 2005-11-04 às 11:24 -0800, Andy Streich escreveu:
> On Friday 04 November 2005 09:11 am, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > On the whole, I'm happy with Linux. But in a side-by-side comparison,
> > IMO Solaris is superior.
> >
> > No flames, please.
>
> You are wise to include the "no flames" request. As always this is as more of
> an emotional issue for many people than an intellectual or economic one.
>
> In asking what's best or what's superior you have to state for what intended
> purpose. I think it would be hard to make a case for Solaris being the best
> OS to run on your workstation at home or your typical webhost when Debian
> GNU/Linux is available. But if your company is doing high volume stock and
> banking transactions, Solaris may very well be the best. In both cases it's
> not just about the technical quality of the OS -- although that's critically
> important -- it's also about the available community support. In the former
> case the community is the essentially the people on this mailing list. In
> the latter, I'd much prefer to look to -- and pay for -- the community of
> engineers at Sun. (One way in which Sun distinguishes itself is that it is
> still a company where engineers dominate, as opposed to Microsoft, as someone
> else mentioned, which is purely marketing driven. Sadly the results can be
> seen in their stock prices.)
>
> I doubt many people on this list have much experience working in high-volume,
> financial transaction environments where minutes of downtime correspond to
> millions of dollars lost. It's not reasonable IMO to expect OSS to serve
> that market -- yet.
>
> As Mike wrote: No flames, please. But I'd be very interested in what others
> thing about this.
I worked a lot (2years/ 3 servers: Mail/Web/Firewall) with Sun stations
using Solaris.
Here in Brasil the Service offered by SUN is abysmal:
No 24/24 help desk, they work from 9h to 17h Monday to Friday.
Any question, really any question is only answered after they contact
some central organisation: delay:24-48h. In the case of hardware
failure we would have had to wait 3 (three) monthes before getting a new
NIC (failure on the firewall SUN/Solaris+Checkpoint).
At that point we switched to a self build PIV/Asus/3Com station running
Debian./iptables.
Mean delay for a community answer:~6h, and 24/24 7/7.
Downtime in case of hardware failure: 1h, the time to go to a shop and
by a new part. (And 3 monthes to get the money back from the University,
but that's another problem).
There's no doubts here: Open Systems are much superior to proprietary
ones when you are far away from the owner.
Michel.
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