Monday September 25, 2006
Monday September 25, 2006 I'm not sure they do, but their sponsorship of these awards is an example of interesting timing to say the least.
You can read more here.
Friday September 22, 2006 Charlie Schluting over at ServerWatch has just written a review of Solaris 10 6/06 (aka Update 2) which is pretty good. He hits on all the right things, in particular ZFS, Predictive Self-Healing and PostgreSQL as well as some of the performance improvements.
What's most interesting is the comments he makes in terms of comparing ZFS to Veritas VXVM and VFS. The thing to do as you're reading this is just keep repeating this little mantra:
Solaris is Free, Solaris is Free, Solaris is Free......
Technorati Tags Solaris Veritas VXVM VXFS OpenSolaris x64 PostgreSQL ZFS
Monday September 18, 2006 This is an interesting article from InforWorld on what's driving Sun's increasing server revenues. It's pretty short and to the point but pretty much hits the nail on the head IMHO.
Thursday September 14, 2006 If you're a current Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 user, there are some changes coming your way that you may or may not know about. Things here have been unusually hectic so in all likelihood this is old news but I thought I'd cover it anyway.
RHEL3 goes into maintenance mode on November 1st of this year. That means that customers will only get Security errata and select mission critical bug fixes from that date forward. That's a pain for a couple of reasons:
1. Red Hat doesn't guarantee compatibility between releases (unlike Solaris).
And
2. RHEL 4 hasn't been widely adopted and as a result only offers support for 474 hardware platforms and 997 apps (according to redhat.com). Solaris 10 on the other hand currently supports over *700* x64/x86 systems and has over *1560* currently shipping x64/x86 apps. One thing to note is that Red Hat also seems to double count systems on their hardware lists. I also think their number includes various POWER platforms etc which I don't really count as I've yet to meet a customer who has one.
We won't mention the multi-award winning functionality today.
You also don't have to take my word for it. Take a look at what a DTrace Commando I know has to say about the whole thing.
For those of you who don't have the stomach for that *8 page* piece, slide on over to the Replace Red Hat pages on sun.com. There's some info, documentation and tools there that may interest you. We'll update this site regularly so watch out for more info, offers, tools, and docs etc over the coming weeks.
We also announced today that the upcoming Solaris 10 11/06 is in evaluation at EAL4+ with three protection profiles (LSPP, RBACPP and CAPP), that will qualify it as the most secure OS on the planet. What's currently the most secure OS on the planet? Well, actually, that would be Solaris too.
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Wednesday September 13, 2006 After quite some time, we've managed to get the DTrace Commando to write a blog. It's currently posted on the BigAdmin web site where he'll start posting regularly as we move forward.
He's also going to start adding DTrace and Sytem Administration tips, tricks and hints to the BigAdmin Newsletter.
Technorati Tags Solaris DTrace OpenSolaris