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Post #307,617 by boxley 4/21/09 8:03:41 AM Reply	hogwash Solaris X86 has been a viable enterprise system since its debut as Interactive Unix in 1985 or so. As good or better than linux. thanx, bill
Post #307,622 by folkert 4/21/09 9:04:38 AM Reply	Yep, keep repeating the mantra... Eventually you'll get someone to believe you. Next you'll be telling me that SCO on x86 was the cat's meow back then. Sheesh, at least we all know how well that really is. Heck x86 didn't REALLY become a good deal on Price and Processor Power until the Xeon Processors (the real Xeons (700 or 800MHz models with MBs of cache)) Before that Xenix was better.
Post #307,626 by boxley 4/21/09 10:02:32 AM Reply	Im not the evangalist on the board linux doesnt suxxors! it will eventually be used on every desktop! soon as a few bugs are worked out! Sure, and back in the day SCO was better than xenix as was Forpro on intel. Cheap was a machine at 3.5k plus 1.2k for the OS compared to 15k for an entry level apollo/sun/dec never mind an ibm system 36 at $36k
Post #307,624 by malraux 4/21/09 9:31:21 AM Reply	"As good or better" Not what we hear. We hear it's significantly slower. Several companies around here implemented Oracle on it, then switched to Linux because the speed was so atrocious. Add into that the lack of software for the platform and it's a bad idea. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #307,627 by boxley 4/21/09 10:05:56 AM Reply	Cant speak to oracle on solaris x86, linux rac would be better there. As fast or faster for other things such as store and forward, transient computations and other items we have experimented with. As far as enterprise support it is cheaper than redhat and the availability of enterprise software is pretty good thanx, bill

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