home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Path: sparky!uunet!digibd!rhealey
- From: rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey)
- Subject: Re: Solaris 2.x: resistance to it?
- Organization: DigiBoard Incorporated, Eden Prairie, MN
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:58:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.235826.11571@digibd.com>
- References: <1dsjidINNcrv@cae.cad.gatech.edu>
- Lines: 54
-
- In article <1dsjidINNcrv@cae.cad.gatech.edu> vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox) writes:
- =I know that around Tech, we have had Solaris for some weeks now as part
- =of the University ScholarPack. Talking to the lady who checks out
- =the software, seems like no one is checking it out. I personally don't
- =want to move to an OS that is that different and may break all my
- =existing software. Not to mention a slight bias for Berzerkely.
- =I am wondering if this is an instance of other folks feeling the
- =same way and avoiding the upgrade?
-
- Your choice is System V period. Sun is the last vendor to go
- from a Solid BSD to System V, others did it long ago. POSIX
- and other standards are basically System V based, etc.
-
- Solaris is nice for many sute which have System V based systems
- as it's more consistant. For you BSD bigots out there System V
- outnumber's you massively in seats due to the fact that Xenix
- and SCO UNIX are used extensivly in turnkey apps sold to hundreds
- of businesses around the world yearly. Plain and simple the MONEY
- is in System V.
-
- The administration in SVR4 has been standardized, MUCH easier than
- the shell scripts that varied from BSD to BSD in the "good" old
- days.
-
- Sun made the correct BUSINESS move to go to SVR4 as that's where
- the big UNIX money is and always will be. Business uses outnumber
- technical/engineering by a great deal. Every business needs
- accounting, few need weather forcasting or CAD on their systems. By
- going with SVR4 Sun has made it easier to leverage the applications
- ported to Intel based SVR4 from the DOS world.
-
- Those who hate Solaris and SVR4 probably don't really understand
- the system. If they did they'd see how much mess SVR4 cleaned up
- over BSD in programming interface, system standards, administration
- and networking. SVR4 has all the functionality of BSD, it just
- doesn't use the exact same syntax.
-
- For those who will choose another platform, do you REALLY think
- moving to another major vendor will be EASY? That other vendor
- will probably be SVR3.2 based and have woefully little of the
- BSD fucntionality SVR4 has or the clean networking and programming
- interfaces of SVR4.
-
- I've been working on SVR4 systems, non-sun's, for almost 2 years
- now. Before that I worked and maintained Sun and other BSD systems.
- I can say without any hesitation that given a choice between 4.1.3
- and Solaris 2.1 I'll take Solaris 2.1 thank you, MUCH nicer system.
-
- -Rob
- --
-
- Rob Healey MTS E-mail: rhealey@digibd.com
- Digi International (DigiBoard) Fax: (612) 943-0803
- Eden Prairie, MN 55344 Phone: (612) 943-9020
-