Sun and SCOX

Sun and SCOX

Posted Dec 3, 2003 14:10 UTC (Wed) by dps (subscriber, #5725)
Parent article: Sun's JDS Rivals Windows, Office (eWeek)

Solaris *is* based on SCOX's property, so paying SCOX licence fees is not unreasonable. I have not heard any "only legal version of linux" from SUN, although I would not put it past SCOX to put that sort of thing into SUN's mouth.

Having used solaris it seems to be a good quality product and has a very big market share, so compatibility with it matters. So far it is been the subject of fewer security advisories than any linux distribution, although that could be due to the vulnerable software not being included.

The vibes I got are than Solaris scales to heaps of processors much better than linux.

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