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Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed?

nytimes.com — Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees too large to be called a cult following at this point. Solaris, meanwhile, has thrived as a longstanding, primary Unix platform geared to enterprises. But with Linux the object of all the buzz in the industry, can Sun's rival Solaris Unix OS hang on?

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  • amoore2600, on 09/26/2008, -0/+4OpenSolaris could of been what Ubuntu is but, Sun in there typical marketing fashion are late to the market and is not GPL.
  • dbalaski, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2Missed one Unix -- Mac OX-X 10.5 - leopard is a certified Unix OS now -- and a growing one
  • nerddtvg, on 09/26/2008, -2/+4They are way too late to the party, but mainly they don't have the community of support that Ubuntu has, especially for users who are not familiar with the differences between it and Linux.
  • johndavidjack, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1I don't think the goal of OpenSolaris is to be like Ubuntu.

    It's not even close to ease of use, installation, prettier GUI interfaces, simplified administration, etc with Ubuntu. That being said I hate Ubuntu, and absolutely love OpenSolaris.

    Everything you can do on Ubuntu you can do on OpenSolaris, but better. Provided you know what you're doing, you get enterprise grade software, and extremely stable kernel, and after you learn all of the Sun-specific commands, a finely tuned machine with a great life cycle. It's just not an OS that you want to put your grandma on to teach her about something other than Windows.

    Oh, and you can play Crysis on OpenSolaris also.
  • tnoy, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1"not GPL"

    So? Do you have the same feeling for BSD licensed software? or Apache licensed software?
  • DougVitale, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1Linux and the three main editions of UNIX - Solaris, AIX and HP-UX - are so similar that you could argue that they constitute one family of a single operating system (Linux is a UNIX clone). Even the Mac OS from Apple is based on FreeBSD, which is another UNIX-like operating system.

    It's too bad that these companies (Red Hat, Sun, HP, IBM, etc.) couldn't work together more and present a unified front against Microsoft and its ubiquitous Windows OS, instead of seeing each other as "the competition". In such a situation, both the *NIX and Windows OSes would only improve in quality, because of the epic struggle for customers between the *NIX vendors and Microsoft. Instead we have:

    1. Microsoft making impressive headway into the server market, which was once UNIX's/Linux's stronghold.

    2. Windows Vista, which would not have occurred if desktop Linux had been a serious threat to Windows by constituting way more than the 2% desktop market share it currently maintains.
  • johndavidjack, on 09/29/2008, -1/+1"Linux and the three main editions of UNIX - Solaris, AIX and HP-UX - are so similar that you could argue that they constitute one family of a single operating system"

    Ehh, not really.
  • RoboDonut, on 09/26/2008, -3/+3I try to avoid nitpicking grammar, but your post was painful for me to read.

    This is a common mistake because the contraction "could've" sounds like "could of"
    "could of" -> "could have"

    Comma goes before "but", not after. Mixed up homonyms "there" and "their".
    "is but, Sun in there typical marketing fashion are late" -> "is, but Sun, in their typical marketing fashion, are late"

    This just sounded weird to me.
    "and is not GPL" -> "and their software is not GPL"
  • naz37, on 09/26/2008, -1/+1is u grammar nazi

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