what's so good about SOLARIS?

[TuffGuy]

in comparison to other flavors of unix?

 

[BOFH]

It runs pretty well usually on a E10k box. Other than that it should be down to any proprietary software that you want to run and is available on it.

 

[TuffGuy]

that's it? thanks.

 

[DaveR]

...it runs on any of the SPARC systems as well. The Workstations as well as the LARGE E10K servers!

 

[MGMorden]

For me Solaris doesn't work any better than the other forms of Unix. Most people who are addicted to the Sun platform are that way because of the hardware/cpu (which is marvel), not so much b/c of Solaris.

 

[bubba]

Supposedly it is the best platform (Solaris + Sparc hardware) to run Oracle on.

 

[DaHitman]

<< Supposedly it is the best platform (Solaris + Sparc hardware) to run Oracle on. >>



Actually I would say Oracle runs best on HP/UX.... and Solaris would be second...It runs a little better on our N4000's than our UE10000 cluster..

HP/UX is really a better operating system I think personally... It has an incredible Logical Volume Manager built in...(soo good that the Linux guys are trying to make a near 100% perfect emulation/copy of it).. whereas on Solaris you have to purchase a 3rd party add on from Veritas to get the same functionalty and then its not as &quot;integrated&quot; since its bolt-on...and HP/UX's MC/ServiceGuard clustering is probably the best clustering software in the world...and is 10000% better than Suns Clustering...I get the feeling that Sun just does not put money into its clustering...its generally considered a low end product... it causes us nothing but problems on our UE10K's.