[SunHELP] Guys, this is not good...for Sun

[Jan Johansson]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:51:26PM -0600, Robert Banniza wrote:
>I just saw this and it is not giving me a warm and fuzzy. I have
>been a Sun advocate for a long time and will continue to be.
>However, this URL
>http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO67867,00.html
>and the fact that I heard today that Enron, Excite at Home and
>Exodus were some of the largest customers of Sun. Scott McNealy,
>I hope you can pull us through as we will continue to be
>faithful.

I do not think GNU/Linux is stable[1] enough, but then I have never been
a GNU/Linux fan (I use OpenBSD instead).

For me Solaris is a necessary evil, half of the OS is broken, it
is 2002 and they almost have a /dev/random, their ksh is beyond
repair and /etc is symlink hell because they can't change a thing
becuase it will brake the 30 year old app.

Solaris 9 is looking good so there is still hope and I love the
hardware, cheap Intels do not even have a real prom, and Netra X1
comes with a very good price.

[1] stable as in "We do not change our packet filter every
release."