I always get a little concerned when I walk into the office and my boss tells me, "Congratulations on being quoted in Information Week." Although I admit my mind is still fuzzy from a week and a half away from work, I am positive that I never sat for an interview with an InfoWeek reporter. Nonetheless, there is the article in black and white electrons under the title: Sun Shines In Solaris 10, Linux Comparison. I guess I can't complain about the title can I?
This serves as a good reminder to us all what risks and potential problems can result from blog entries that are poorly written, researched or misrepresented. Thankfully, although I admit that my original entry and the chart are not perfect, I haven't yet been accused of outright lies or propaganda.
As a Sun stockholder, I can't complain when the company gets more good publicity and attention driven to our products and services.
Read my original blog entry and see the Solaris vs. RHEL 5 comparison document. Feel free to comment.
Bill Vass (SunFederal President and COO) also makes reference to this in his blog entry.
Thanks to Information Week for picking this up.
Hi there, I'm quite surprised to hear the suggestion that solaris runs on (not is "certified to run on") more SPARC and X86/X64 platforms than Red Hat - do you have anything to back that up? The link is just to a sun harware support list. The "Over 900 including from Sun" in the pdf presumably includes those just "reported to work" (most of which have nasty work-arounds) whereas the red hat list is those that are really supported - i guess if you're going to do that you should
add all the other hardware that linux runs on but redhat has not certified it for.
Posted by dave on January 05, 2008 at 10:17 AM EST #
Thanks for joining in the discussion by commenting on my blog. I collected by data from the Sun HCL page (www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl) and the equivalent RHEL 5 page.
At Sun's page you will find the statement: "Sun offers Solaris Subscriptions for Solaris software running on all systems listed on the HCL." This means that systems on the HCL are SUPPORTED by Sun if you have a service contract.
I have purposely not done any comparisons to "Linux" because "Linux" is a source code development project at kernel.org (not too dissimilar from OpenSolaris at opensolaris.org). "Linux" is not a product. Solaris 10 and RHEL 5 are products that customers can buy and get support for.
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