![]() ![]() You are much better off using AIX in my experience as it’s better integration with the platform becomes apparent very quickly.įor example software RAID mirroring can be a PITA as the boot partition for Linux on POWER has to be a PPC PReP partition with a Fat16 file system that cannot be added to a Linux software mirror. To be honest, I think it’s to be avoided even if you take the vendor lock-in out of the equation. Does it matter? if your desire is for a top notch development environment, a top notch Sun Ray/Thin Client experience – yes, the user experience is important! as for ROI as some will claim – the difference is either staying afloat or sinking – dollars don’t enter the equation, only survival. Take a bog standard Xeon processor, attach it to a custom Oracle/Sun chipset and push Solaris scalability to the max.Īs for OpenSolaris itself they need more programmers – so many things are missing not only high end but also for the development desktop it is time for Oracle to bite the bullet and realise that they’ll need to invest 4 years worth of profits into OpenSolaris to catch up to Windows and Mac OS X in the area of usability. ![]() I do hope, however, that we’ll see some freaky chipset designs that really push the envelop when it comes to scalability, reliability and speed which is where Sun/Oracle can carve out a niche. As processors become more complex so will the costs of R&D will increase so unless you have the economies of scale to spread those additional costs over more units it’ll be a costly venture of either the CPU being behind the leader or so costly that the parent company never recoups the costs over the lifecycle of the processor (made worse now with the quick turn around with each design due to Intels tick-tock development model). I’ve always got the feeling that the support of x86 is going to be taken to a whole new level as Oracle realises that the days of SPARC are pretty much numbered outside of a few niche areas. Never in my life has being a systems and OS polyglot paid off so well □ When I asked them why they felt that way, they said that not only where Intel based Solaris machines faster than SPARC, but that POWER was by far the most interesting platform for high-end UNIX systems currently on the market. I finished negotiating a new job contract today where I was told by a traditionally Solaris house that my most interesting skills where X86/Solaris and AIX/Linux on POWER. With the performance differences between POWER, SPARC and Itanium growing ever more steadily and still no clear idea when SPARC/Solaris will be back to “Business as usual”, now is indeed the time. I’m not surprised IBM has opted to release the mid-range and enterprise classes this quickly, their timing is impeccable. Looking over the specs of the machines released today, all I can say is wow! ![]()
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