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> not making a deal with Google for Google to use Solaris in their data centers Wow i had no idea that had almost happened! Anyone care to elaborate further o
by znpy 3y ago
> not making a deal with Google for Google to use Solaris in their data centers
Wow i had no idea that had almost happened!
Anyone care to elaborate further on that?
I wonder what could have been, if later solaris was open sourced and google could push their improvements… maybe we’d all be running containers based on solaris zones, and would have solaris on our smartphones? Who knows!
- cryptonector 3y agoThe story as I understand it is that Sun wanted to license Solaris on a number of hosts basis while Google considered the number of servers they had to be a critical secret. > maybe we’d all be running containers based on solaris zones There were a lot of nice things about Solaris. The Solaris engineering org was amazing, full of visionary giants. ZFS, Zones, DTrace, mdb, SMF (systemd, but done better and ten years earlier), the fault tolerance stuff -- all created by engineers as skunkworks.
- fishnchips 3y agoFun fact - some Google servers ran Solaris. I worked on the tape backup team and the machines connected to LTE drives were indeed running Solaris.