From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Sep 8 06:02:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA25722 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 06:02:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA25713 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 06:02:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@futuresouth.com) Received: (from tim@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22256; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 08:02:27 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980908080227.31656@futuresouth.com> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 08:02:27 -0500 From: Tim Tsai To: Roger Marquis Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BigTime FreeBSD vs... References: <199808202230.PAA01577@pau-amma.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Roger Marquis on Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:51:21PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > * Solaris has the easiest installation, best patching software > (sunsolve.sun.com/sunsolve/patchdiag/), best disk RAID (with ODS and > VXVM) and best all-around technical support (24*7 phone support and > sunsolve1.sun.com). It is also the most expensive and most likely to > support commercial application X. A half dozen administrators can > easily manage 500 clients, 1,000 users, dozens of applications, > software and hardware running Solaris and do it far easier than on > any other Unix, probably any other OS, IMHO. Let's not forget that most commercial Solaris pakckages that *I*'ve run across do not have the x86 version which kills the primary reason that I'd want Solaris. Solaris/Sparc and Solaris/x86 are so different in so many different ways I don't think they should be lumped together. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message