The reason you trust Sun is because they're one of the largest purveyors of Open Source Software, and a major backer of the FSF. They released Java under the GPL. They may be competing against Linux, but they believe in Open Source.
So very naive.You are aware that Facebook is powered by MySQL / LAMP don't you?You do know that Microsoft payed $240 million in a share of a LINUX APACHE MYSQL PHP based company.Is 240million not serious enough for you? Grow up fanboi.
All our storage at work is moving to Solaris machines using ZFS. We're not as massive as some others, we're only around ~40TB right now (just my department). There are really not that many other options that are as cheap and easy to manage. We're in education, and Sun gives some very nice discounts. Our production webservers are Linux on Sun hardware, though.
Following, yes. Developers, no. MySQL was always open source, but didn't have a developer community around it. It was maintained by MySQL Corp. PostgreSQL, on the other hand, is not owned by a company. It is completely community driven.Big difference in my opinion.
mythicfluxApr 18, 2008
Then go use PWS/IIS and let the talented and capable people get back to work.
zachpruckowskiApr 18, 2008
The reason you trust Sun is because they're one of the largest purveyors of Open Source Software, and a major backer of the FSF. They released Java under the GPL. They may be competing against Linux, but they believe in Open Source.
ozsynergyApr 18, 2008
So very naive.You are aware that Facebook is powered by MySQL / LAMP don't you?You do know that Microsoft payed $240 million in a share of a LINUX APACHE MYSQL PHP based company.Is 240million not serious enough for you? Grow up fanboi.
tnoyApr 18, 2008
All our storage at work is moving to Solaris machines using ZFS. We're not as massive as some others, we're only around ~40TB right now (just my department). There are really not that many other options that are as cheap and easy to manage. We're in education, and Sun gives some very nice discounts. Our production webservers are Linux on Sun hardware, though.
lickApr 18, 2008
We don't need the sun, our lamps are working fine!
maverickalexApr 19, 2008
If you have any sense you wouldn't use oracle. Especially when there are better database engines for free.
jocknerdApr 19, 2008
Following, yes. Developers, no. MySQL was always open source, but didn't have a developer community around it. It was maintained by MySQL Corp. PostgreSQL, on the other hand, is not owned by a company. It is completely community driven.Big difference in my opinion.
braininajarApr 19, 2008
I think those are new deployments ( id est, Linux is growing faster than Solaris ), not that it matters much
likewhateeeverApr 19, 2008
Facebook is is a software company it's not a bank or a pharma or ....
strapsApr 19, 2008
I prefer LAPP (Linux Apache Postgres Php)PostgreSQL is the best open database server out there...Try it
zachblumeApr 20, 2008
trim(original, markuptoremove)