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Originally Posted by illscientific I think buying sun hardware and paying for solaris is a waste of money in general, especially if you're running open source software. Hopefully Sun and solaris go the way SGI and irix (inst) have.... |
Sun makes good hardware for the most part, both SPARC and x64. You don't pay for solaris actually, since it is free to use. In fact Solaris has been open-sourced in the recent past and is gaining a bit more of a following simply because of that.
http://opensolaris.org
If Sun does go chapter 11 (not likely) it won't be for some time. Sun, unlike many of it's competitors has quite a bit of cash in the bank to use for investments or as a cusion if needed.