Re: [Fed-Talk] Xserve discontinued?--what's Apple using?
Re: [Fed-Talk] Xserve discontinued?--what's Apple using?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Xserve discontinued?--what's Apple using?
- From: Rex Sanders <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:44:27 -0700
You mean jumping from the frying pan to the fire?
Oracle supports Sun products to run Oracle applications. Period.
Any other type of use has been severely deprecated, including HPC,
scientific computing, general purpose SAN/NAS storage, etc.
And Oracle has dramatically increased Sun support prices.
And third party app vendors are abandoning Solaris with extreme
prejudice. As in this conversation we had last spring:
Us: "But your web site says you support Solaris, and we've been
paying you $XX,XXX annually for Solaris support for years."
Vendor: "Could you send me that URL so we can remove it?"
I'd rather move to Linux than deal with Oracle for Mac OS X server
support.
-- Rex
On Nov 5, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Todd Heberlein wrote:
Oracle/Sun seems to be on pretty good terms with Apple -- Apple
based its auditing system on Solaris's BSM, Apple integrated
Solaris's DTrace into its kernel, Apple has toyed with ZFS, Apple
apparently runs a lot of their own systems on Oracle/Solaris
hardware, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs are friends. Maybe there will
be a special deal where you can run Mac OS X Server on Solaris.
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