Asking the wrong person ...

Let´s assume, you want know more about the new BMW X6. Would you ask a Mercedes sales guy standing in front of a M-class SUV? Obviously you wouldn´t to it. Out of this reason,i have some problems with articles like this one: Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed?. Just one and a half pages uninformed, biased marketing material from the Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. What a nonsense. When you want to talk about the future of something, you don´t ask the competitor. It´s better to ask an unpartisan observer. BTW: I really believe the Linux Foundation (as the commercial part of the Linux Community) is afraid of Solaris. When you look at Linux Foundations member you will find dozens of companies. The Platinum Member (aka the ones investing most into the foundation) are the ones economically interested in prospering Linux. Such fear would explain some paradox comments like “ZFS and DTrace is irrelevant” just to talk about “Sun should put ZFS and DTrace under the GPL” a few lines later. <rant>At the end one comment to “And the Linux community is working on rival technology, Zemlin adds.”. Yes … there are rival technolgies. Kind of. There is no filesystem in the Linux market that´s even near of ZFS. We started to develop it in 2001. Why does the Linux Community think, they can do it faster. Multipathing … yes, there is something like Multipathing … but it´s nowhere near of MPXIO in Solaris, it´s a major pain in the a.. to configure it. SystemTap … obvious example of the NIH syndrome in Linux, just yet another kernel developer tool. The NFSv4 implementation is really substandard. And the behaviour under high load (really high load on Enterprise systems, not what the average linux admin perceives as “high load”) is at least strange in Linux land. The list is endless. Many features of Solaris are available in Linux … somehow … in a kind. And there is only one feature in Linux, that´s not in Solaris … drivers for almost every strange brand of soundcards …</rant> Dear Inforworld: Just write “Advertisment” above the article next time you give the Linux Foundation two pages for pure marketing.