Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO (eWeek)

Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO (eWeek)

Posted Sep 21, 2003 3:16 UTC (Sun) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO (eWeek) by captrb
Parent article: Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO (eWeek)

Sun machines (at least the higher-end ones) are bulletproof, no question. But Solaris is a pig, on the same hardware Linux is _much_ faster (and runs on machines on which current Solaris doesn't work at all). Plus security patches are slow in comming, and much Sun software assumes everything else is _also_ Sun (I remember finding it much easier to just install sendmail, bind, and others from source than trying to get their stuff interoperating decently with our Ultrix (and later Linux) machines through the mid '90s).

Linux on cheap clone PCs is awful, true. But that is because the machine is awful. Put it on a decent machine, and it works fine. Plus what I remember from Solaris on PCs (long time ago) was that it requiered very special (expensive) hardware.

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