roybacer

Any Sun Microsystems / Solaris users on here ?

Any one certified on Solaris 8/9/10 ?

Any one use Sun hardware / software at work?


Would be interested to see how many people are any of the above

Turbocabbie

Ive used Solaris before, but not for a while its a dying product to be honest as evident by Sun now making it an OpenSource product.
They are simply not selling enough to justify paying a development team so are getting the open source community to contribute to it.
The very fact that Sun are now heavily supporting Linux supports this also.

I have a old Sun SPARC box myself which was thrown out by work and im going to throw opensolaris on it when i get time just for a nose

BM08

Sun micro systems, wasnt they who made Java for website games?

Turbocabbie

Yea they are the company which made Java however prior to that they had a massive market in the server operating systems with Solaris which is a systemV Unix. Sun had massive market place on the SPARC architecture however as x86 and x86 64 architecture gets more powerful many traditional unix environments are now becoming Linux systems

It's a pretty good system in all reality but has lost market place to Linux and FreeBSD

JohnnyB

we used to have loads, must have cost 1000's but they have all gone to the recycler now

Turbocabbie

SPARC SunBOX's are like Venoms and Tri-spokes there was so many about at one time that they could not have all just simply disappeared..

roybacer

Not strictly true at all, you'd be amazed at how many companys run on Solaris / Sun hardware, but i can see where your coming from

FasterFords

I'm certified on Solaris 7 and 8, never got round to 10, although we do use it.

Certified on Red Hat too

We dont have many Sun boxes though, most of them are Primepower, but they still use Sparc CPU's

FasterFords

oh yeah, most of BskyB is running on Solaris boxes too that I used to look after, along with UBS, specsavers .....

roybacer

Do you mind me asking where you work mate?, and if u wana PM me a contact name of somebody who makes decisions on what hardware you buy and where from then feel free

FasterFords

I work for Siemens, until next week, then Im out of there and contracting

All hardware is purchased from Fujitsu Siemens and no one else.

neilm

Sun / Solaris powers E-bay.......


So its not that far off the leading edge...

Turbocabbie

i was'nt saying Solaris is not good or not leading edge only that a lot of the traditional unix environments which Solaris competed for have now become Linux based environments