Why Sun Solaris?

Sun's servers account for the majority of the Internet Web servers utilized by businesses (56% as reported by Sun in June 1995). Among Internet Service Providers (ISPs), experts estimate that 50 to 75 percent of ISP-based servers are Sun-based. Sun estimates that 80% of all Internet applications were created using Sun technology. As a general rule, Internet programs appear on Sun systems first and move to other platforms later. But Solaris is a Unix operating system!

Solaris 2.X is much more stable, secure, and scalable than Windows NT.
Read the following recent comments from trade journals:

Infoworld, November 6, 1995, page 138:

"If you run Windows NT on your workstation, it's possible that some of your files are disappearing, too, without permission. That's because it's often possible to run an FTP session on an NT workstation, even with anonymous FTP disabled.
The NT world is wide open, which means anonymous or guest FTP clients by default have full file access rights, unlike in Unix, where access is usually limited. When you turn off anonymous FTP on NT, you are only disabling Anonymous and FTP. Any other name remains eligible for guest access."
In the same issue, page 92:
"A recent survey asked 154 IS managers to name their preferred World Wide Web server." The chart showed Unix was preferred by most at 45% of IS managers and NT was preferred by only 17% of IS managers.

PC Magazine, October 10, 1995, page 253:

"We...found the Intergraph solution (an NT-based web servers) to be approximately 5 to 10 percent slower than the other systems (Digital, SGI, and Sun); we attribute this to a combination of the Pentium's slower I/O bus and the immaturity of the Windows NT TCP/IP stack.

Windows Sources, February 1995, page 64:

"Windows NT servers aren't as mature though. Unix versions of most tools appear before their NT counterparts..."