Google switching to Solaris?!

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 15:18 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006, Net Llama! wrote:
> >I wouldn't read much into this until google is confirming the rumor, 
> >rather than Sun's FUD dept just screaming about it in their ongoing 
> >desperate attempt to prove that Solaris is still relevant.
> 
> Tom Yager's column in this weeks Infoworld discusses Sun's rise
> in the UNIX marketplace over the last year.
> 
> 	http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/09/13/38OPcurve_1.html
> 
> Personally I haven't looked at Open Solaris, and my Sparc IPX is
> sitting under a table gathering dust so I can't say anything
> about the pros and cons of Solaris these days.  I do know that
> Sun has considerable expertise in Enterprise UNIX solutions, and
> shouldn't be ignored.

Seems (I could be wrong) OpenSolaris is the kernel, not the whole
environment. Folk are working on complete systems, on which one runs the
expected GNU tools and whatever GUI. I have seen live CDs. But no
install. I think OpenSolaris is a great idea, but it is not a 'distro',
It is 'just' the kernel. Nice, indeed. But not usable on its own.

> 
> Bill
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