Re: Oracle on Windows Vs. Linux

> I must say that my faith was swayed by the recent post from Michael Haddon about
> using Solaris on AMD64. There is an alternative to Linux! There is another form of
> Unix operating system on PC platform, this one decent, stable and well documented
> and somebody is using it! Now that is what I call a good news! Linux, as it is now,
> is almost buggy enough for Oracle to produce its own version. Then, we will all be
> blessed by Linux 2.8.37.135.20048.FOOBAR version of Linux! There is a God and Linus
> Torvalds is his prophet! There is no other explanation for the popularity of this
> crap

Wow... this is one is for keeps. :) I have to say, though, that several people (off this list) have told me something similar.

Not only that... Solaris is also open source and completely free. If you want support, it is cheaper than redhat. :-)

If you are looking for technical reasons for using Solaris over Linux, there are quite a few reasons aside from stability of the release cycle but I'm not quite sure that I have the time to get into that right now.

James
Speaking for myself, not for my employer ;-)

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