RE: [cobalt-users] No Solaris Petition

["Vachon, Scott" <Scott.Vachon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Honestly I am not hearing a lot of arguments as to why NOT Solaris.  I have
>always been very impressed by the performance of Solaris.
>Cobalt is has done very little to kick back to the OS community. 

Is this a requirement to be a "good" company ?

>So essentially, besides market share, the Linux
>community gains very little from Cobalt, while Cobalt gains a lot.  

That's the "American way." Free enterprise, isn't it great ?!

>Most of the worlds 100 largest/highest traffic web sites use Solaris as
>their OS.  A few use BSD, NT and Linux.  But Solaris has more than all
>others added together.

I'm going to hazard a guess that most of us running Cobalt equipment are not
Fortune 500, or even 100 companies for that matter, or that we are not among
the largest or highest web traffic sites. We buy the products because of:

1) The price
2) The specific performance required (web server, file server.
3) ****LINUX****

I don't have a problem with Solaris or Sun but, I like the Cobalt product
and the fact that it runs a Linux flavor. For my long term planning goals
this is an important factor as I believe it is for others on this list. As
some else stated, "If I wanted Solaris, I would have purchased a machine
running Solaris."
If SUN doesn't have the "energy" maybe they should get out of the race !

~S~