Solaris 11 is a much better alternative for a number of reasons. I work for a large organization that has 1000's of Redhat / Suse linux servers. Managing them is a mess, yes they are easier to patch yum update etc.. but with Solaris 11 you have pkg update? It couldn't be easier. <div>
<br></div><div>Suse and redhat just got finished racking us over the coals for our "free" linux to the tune of about $500,000.</div><div><br></div><div>The trick with Linux is you have no rollback capability if your patches go to shit like you have with solaris live upgrade. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Linux is junk meant for running startup dot coms in someone's basement. </div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Glen Gunselman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ggunselm@emporia.edu" target="_blank">ggunselm@emporia.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It is my understanding that Red Hat is not as generous as they once were.<br>
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I will be surprised if I use Solaris 11 in any significant way. It looks like we are moving in an x86/Linux/VMware direction.<br>
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Have you looked at OEL/OVM? (very off topic - but it is Friday :) )<br>
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Have a good weekend,<br>
GlenG<br>
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Subject: Re: [pca] Missing sconadm on Solaris 10 1/13<br>
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Am <a href="tel:21.03.2013%2017" value="+12103201317">21.03.2013 17</a>:48, schrieb francis picabia:<br>
> The strange thing is, I had this misplaced optimism that Ian Murdock<br>
> would fix Sun's wacky series of patch tools with something fast and<br>
> robust like dpkg or pkg-get. I was totally wrong.<br>
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To be fair, they kind of did that in Solaris 11 (IPS/pkg).<br>
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Unfortunately I will never use that - for us, the next Solaris version<br>
after 10 will most probably not be 11, but "Red Hat".<br>
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Martin.<br>
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