BM Seer Unofficial thoughts from an anonymous Sun employee

Solaris, Linux, Windows

Monday Feb 05, 2007

Solaris can improve your performance and Solaris gives you great features. Sun really feels that Solaris has a strong lead over other operating systems. We've shown various head-to-head comparisons on this blog. You can see links to a few of those below.

It is also important to remember that Sun also has many important customers who are running RedHat Linux, SuSE Linux, and Windows. So a variety of benchmarks are also done with those, as you can see in last week's entry on SPECjAppServer.

So expect to see results on a mix of operating systems as Sun fully understands different customers have different needs. We still believe most can get many benefits from moving to Solaris -- so if you are one of those people who can switch, the evidence continues to mount that it is a very good idea to use Solaris.

January 17, 2007
Variety ways Solaris is leading Linux

December 20, 2006
Solaris again beating Linux on benchmark

January 03, 2007
update: Solaris beating Linux Performance

September 22, 2006
Yet another Solaris v. Linux performance comparison

EDA vendors supporting Solaris:
http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/another_strong_isv_votes_for
http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/eda_vendors_seeing_solaris_benefits

afternote:
I forgot to mention that Solaris is also Open:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/

...not something you see with IBM's AIX or HP/UX.

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Posted at 10:25AM Feb 05, 2007 in Benchmarks
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I've found many of your benchmarks reports to be very useful. However, as most of them come from published benchmark reports, they always have multiple differences (Sun Opteron+Solaris+Studio/App vs SomeoneElse X86+Other OS+Compiler/App). Are there any benchmarks being done that highlight just one difference, particularly only changing the OS (and compiler, as necessary), but running on the same HW and app? I have a customer requesting benchmarks to show that Solaris outperforms Linux, but every time there's a HW difference, he writes off the result.

Posted by Stephen Potter on February 06, 2007 at 06:31 PM PST #

As you know benchmarks take time and we have various agreements with all of our software partners so we can't always do the head-to-head comparisons you need.

...but here is one benchmark Solaris v. Linux v. Windows that is the same hardware:
http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/why_solaris_performance_is_a

Posted by BM Seer on February 07, 2007 at 10:08 AM PST #

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