Re: [cobalt-users] Linux to Solaris

[Colin Smith <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Dan wrote:

>   I'm not sure if this list is the place to do it, but I would love to see a
> detailed discussion of what the issues with the potential move to Solaris
> would be. I've been using Linux for a while now, and have never touched
> Solaris, so I have a lot of similar questions to those raised by others.
> What are the additional costs going to be?

Solaris maintenance, Per user Solaris licenses. Switch to SCSI internally
for new products, 'value add' on the web interface. Management tools,
replace Samba with their own SMB implementation, high availability,
consultancy. Lots of PHB stuff.

> What portability issues are there with LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql PHP) based
> sites?

Not a lot actually. There shouldn't be any big problems.

> How will this affect customer support?
> 
> Is anyone here a user of both Linux and Solaris? What are your thoughts on
> this move?

It'll start getting expensive. Nothing Sun produce is remotely competetive
with the the Intel market. They just don't understand it. They will have a
good go at increasing the margins on the boxes.

> If it seems like the move to Solaris is agreed by the people on this list to
> be a bad one, one would hope Sun would take their user base seriously.

Or else what? I suppose there is the sidewinder: www.rebel.com.

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