Linux hitting strong on Solaris and Unix

Linux hitting strong on Solaris and Unix

Posted Jun 16, 2006 5:40 UTC (Fri) by Tao (guest, #24985)
In reply to: Linux hitting strong on Solaris and Unix by tristangrimaux
Parent article: Bodog gambles on Linux and JBoss, and wins (NewsForge)

This is the second or third story I read recently about Linux replacing Solaris. Oddly, each of them talks about what happened several years ago. Like in the other story, Linux replaced Solaris 8 on x86.

This one talks about a bug that "could have been either in Versant's or WebLogic's object-oriented database", then "We found the bug and fixed it".
However in the preceding paragraph, it blames "Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), a Sun product" for the problem.

EJB is a specification, not a product.
They were probably using WebLogic's EJB implementation (the product).

If you were using EJB plus a "object-oriented database" at the time of "Redhat 9", you obviously over-engineered or most likely over-sold by the HW/SW vendors, which isn't surprising, for the dot-com years.

This article can't be possibly written by some developer or engineer, at least not the ones that "decompiled the code" then "found the bug and fixed it" -- they're too smart for this.

It's a marketing piece.

Let's take a wild guess whose marketing it is. "We used to use the stock Red Hat 9, but we've found that it's been worth it springing for the enterprise stuff.", and running JBOSS, hmm ...

Well, looks like it worked on at least one LWN readers, see above.

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