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This comment demonstrates why solaris lost: If you can buy multiple cheap, unreliable PCs for the price of 1 sun server, you still win. If you can employ a bunc

This comment demonstrates why solaris lost: If you can buy multiple cheap, unreliable PCs for the price of 1 sun server, you still win. If you can employ a bunch of cheap kids, why would you want to get the far more professional guy? The theoretical answer is better quality. But in practice, the speed of adaptation of the new kids fixes that mostly, especially when you are competing against big arrogant, slow moving enterprice stuff. Worst case, you get 99% uptime instead of 99.5, and you pay a lot less.v Well, the market had spoken.

Annatar 7y ago
Because in the long term, a bunch of cheap kids who aren't doing system engineering, hacking away on cheap unreliable consumer-grade architecture cost far more than two or three system engineers writing specifications and designing software architecture for hardware designed to protect the integrity of one's data...
- oblio 7y ago
  And yet here we are, where giant companies full of people with amazing formal educations are being powered by cheap unreliable consumer-grade architectures built on top of unreliable consumer-grade hardware. It turns out, evolution doesn't optimize for architectural beauty. Maybe there was a dinosaur out there with an amazing, lean, clean body structure, yet here I am, happily carrying around my appendix ;) Evolution is ruthless.
  - Annatar 7y ago
    The chickens haven't come home to roost yet.
    - oblio 7y ago
      Amusingly, chickens are dinosaurs. And here we are, eating them :-)
taborj 7y ago
> If you can buy multiple cheap, unreliable PCs for the price of 1 sun server, you still win. Quantity has it's own quality