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What does Solaris do that other OSes don't?

Ichinisan

Ichinisan

Lifer
Just wondering why anything uses Solaris. My only encounter is a system we use at work to authorize packages on digital cable boxes and cablecards.

Is there something that Solaris does particularly well compared to other OSes? 😕

EDIT: OK, so Solaris is basically what Sun calls Unix these days. I thought they were different operating systems.
 
For your work it's probably because that's what it was developed, tested and supported on and nothing more. And once it's grandfathered in it's hard to replace it, if the software is also supported on Linux that would be the obvious transition.

ZFS and dtrace are really the only things that set Solaris apart from the rest of the unix world, but IMO they're not worth actually having to use Solaris. Then Oracle bought Sun so that's one huge reason to avoid Solaris and now FreeBSD includes ZFS support so that's even one more reason to not use Solaris.
 
As Nothinman said it used to be for ZFS but I heard Oracle is stopping support for Open Solaris and charging for Oracle Solaris. If you have a desperate need for ZFS FreeBSD and other BSD derivatives have ZFS support.
 
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