--On 20. August 2005 16:26:05 -0700 Steve McMahon <steve@dcn.org> wrote:
Also, the concerns about Solaris were related to poor performance under Solaris 8 on a multi-Sparc platform. Anybody got any more recent information that might apply to Solaris 10 or to an Opteron platform?
To make it short: Solaris is not slow by design. The *Sparc*-based hardware is fu*cking slow compared to decent PC-based systems. Solaris on i386 hardware is not slower or faster than compared to Linux. I made some tests lately with Plone under Solaris on a PC and the benchmarks (basically using ab) were more or less the same as with a comparable PC system (+/- 10%). So why would one use Solaris? Only when you have the need for reliable hardware. Sparc-based hardware is still at least 10 times more stable then a cheap PC system ... everything has its price. -aj