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But why now? There must have been a good reason for Sun to continue developing their own UNIX variant. I can understand the value-add coming from ZFS, but why h
by ratcliffco 16y ago
But why now? There must have been a good reason for Sun to continue developing their own UNIX variant. I can understand the value-add coming from ZFS, but why having to maintain your own kernel? They could have built their own Linux/BSD distribution with ZFS and any other Sun-branded additions. I guess my question is not "why now" but rather "why not 5 years ago".
I don't really know much about Solaris, just trying to understand the business reasons behind their decision to compete with Linux kernel.
- mipolonsky 16y agoHm... perhaps because they have thousands of paying corporate customers who started using Solaris before Linux even existed, and they needed to transition them to a newer/expensive hardware without affecting their Solaris-tuned software? (just thinking out loud, can there be any other reason?)
- patrickgzill 16y agoEven now, Solaris has a far superior VM subsystem and is better performing with multi-thread operations (IMHO). However my company is going to move away from Solaris to Linux because Oracle is simply not trustworthy (I won't say "IMHO" because it is pretty much a fact).