[lug] Religious Question - Linux versus Solaris

[Nate Duehr]

On Sep 3, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Gordon Golding wrote:

>>>> Two Relion 240's from Penguin Computing, running RH ES3.  About 27
> client RH AS3 systems, one E450 running Solaris 8, 4 other Sun Ultras
> running Solaris 8, about 15 Windows boxes.  Two Class C subnets, 80
> users or so, a couple Terabytes of project space. a couple other odds
> and end servers.
>
> Why some servers on Redhat, some on Solaris?  I'm interested in how 
> people decide on the mixing of them.
>
> At UMS (CU Boulder), the comment was - big mission critical; pay for 
> the support and have everything Sun.  Small, not mission critical, get 
> a free OS...

Sounds like what I've run into the in workplace.

Another factor is age of the system or application, or commercial 
availability of certain software.  (Example: Veritas Cluster Manager 
was just announced for Linux recently, some of the systems I work on 
today absolutely rely on it on Solaris.)

A third factor has been purchases of other companies or technologies.  
I don't have to work on it on a regular basis, but a company that was 
purchased a few years ago by my current employer used (gasp!) a mixture 
of SCO Unix and Microsoft Windows 2K Advanced Server/MS SQL Server for 
their product line -- and we still sell and support it today.

(Isn't that just a ghastly combination?  SCO and MS in the same telco 
system?  I hate to pick on my own employer, but man I hope they change 
that down the road... one word... Ewww!)

Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com