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I did say "track record on Linux OS platforms," but I will grant you that Solaris has contracted under Oracle. However, there is a long list of platforms that

by chasil 6y ago

I did say "track record on Linux OS platforms," but I will grant you that Solaris has contracted under Oracle. However, there is a long list of platforms that would never have survived elsewhere. JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, and Siebel are prime examples. And I am still using the Oracle RDB database platform. Red Hat would have euthanized all of these long, long ago.

dralley 6y ago
Do you not find it slightly unfair to count RHL, which began in 1995 and ended in 2003, when Oracle Linux wasn't released until 2006?
- chasil 6y ago
  At the time, it ended a major professional chapter of my life. I do not consider it unfair.
_-david-_ 6y ago
> I will grant you that Solaris has contracted under Oracle. Not to defend Oracle, but I am pretty sure all proprietary unix have contracted over the last 10 years. AIX, HP-UX and whatever other flavors don't seem to be doing well regardless of who is controlling it. If Sun remained in control I am not sure how much better Solaris would actually be doing.