| ▲ | flanked-evergl an hour ago |
| Solaris was worse than Linux, and SPARC was worse than Intel. A lot worse. Even ZFS was way better integrated with the Linux kernel even while Solaris was supposedly maintained. |
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| ▲ | pjmlp an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Not in 2000, at my employer back then, our Linux server was only good as MP3 storage exposed via Samba/NFS. All development and production deployments was being done across Solaris, Aix and HP-UX in regards to UNIX flavours. |
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| ▲ | icedchai an hour ago | parent [-] | | I had a similar experience. I forget the exact timing, but it was probably around 2002 - 2003 that Linux felt "good enough." I was at a startup that finally considered putting its "enterprise" stack on Linux. | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 3 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Later in 2003, when I joined CERN, there were still Sun workstations being used, and I was an earlier user of Scientific Linux in 2004. Afterwards Nokia Networks were still deploying into HP-UX, and the first big Linux project started around late 2005, to Red-Hat. |
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| ▲ | whobre an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Eh, depends when. In 2005, sure. Not so much in the 1990s |
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| ▲ | icedchai an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Yep. Solaris was the Unix for the 90's. I worked at a couple of early ISPs and users demanded Sun Solaris shell servers. At a couple of startups, we built everything on Solaris because Linux wasn't accepted in the enterprise yet. By the early 2000's, 1) Linux was solid, why bother with Solaris? 2) ebay and other channels were flooded with used Sun hardware from failed dot-com companies anyway. No need to buy new. | |
| ▲ | rwmj an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I was asked to benchmark some Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/Intel hardware in around 1997, and the price-performance of the Linux gear was easily 3+ times better. There wasn't really any comparison, especially when you consider how you could buy white box PCs from a local shop, grab a Red Hat ISO for nothing, and have an installed Linux server in 24 hours, compared to weeks to get something more expensive and worse for the Sun option. Even if Sun had been more reliable, it wouldn't have mattered because you could buy 3x the PCs and keep two in a cupboard, or more likely just replace everything with more numerous and better performing Linux PCs which was what we did. |
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