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July 23, 2003
Linux: the future for Solaris shops?
Mike writes about his organization's consideration of Linux as a future direction, instead of Solaris. (see below for the articles he references)
From my conversations with Mike (he's my brother, so we talk from time to time), Tufts has a pretty long history with Solaris. Mike is a pretty good Solaris admin, and there are some fairly compelling reasons to use Solaris in his environment (technical and political). Considering Linux so seriously is not natural behavior at Tufts.
UEN has a long history with Solaris as well. We have had an occassional Linux machine temporarily in production, but about a year ago we put our first deliberately-chosen Linux machine into permanent production. We have since added several more. This fall we are deploying about 15 Linux machines network-wide for our Anycast DNS project.
I've heard comments from our Unix group that Sun has started to slide recently. Their support isn't as good as it used to be. Longer waits on the phone, not quite so quick on the response as they used to be. Maybe these are just exceptions to the norm.
Linux is certainly a part of our systems future. It seems pretty compelling to increase our use of Linux, and not just for financial reasons (though those may be enough just by themselves). Seems possible that in three or four years the only compelling use for Solaris (if there even is one) will be niche solutions.
Mike's Links: McNealy's Last Stand | LinuxWorld Opinion | Linux Kernel 2.6 Features | Solaris vs. Linux
Posted by pete at July 23, 2003 10:54 AM
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