[geeks] Oracle Solaris may not be "free as in beer" going forward

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

Jonathan Patschke wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> 
>> FWIW, Oracle has also killed off the educational "Matching Grant"
>> program this year, which discounts certain configurations of their
>> equipment by 50% for .edu's.
> 
> If anyone can completely alienate their customers by putting the screws to
> them, all while making patently pornographic amounts of cash, it's Oracle.
> This will be fun to watch.
> 

Yeah, well, OpenVZ here I come ...

I just bought a 32GB RAM, DL385 with 2x Opteron 280 , 6i controller and
2x300GB 15K drives (leaving 4 bays free for drives I already have).

It *was* going to run Solaris or OpenSolaris...

Looks like it will be a test implementation for ProxMox (a web interface
to OpenVZ) instead.  Decent disk performance should be had once the
128MB battery backed write cache module shows up ... won't be as fast as
the latest and greatest but should still be quite passable.

What's the difference between Larry Ellison and God?  God doesn't think
he is Larry Ellison ...

--Patrick