Wrong!  Sun bought a small spin-off from Cray who were developing what Sun
then redeveloped as the E10000.  Otherwise Sun has always designed its own
(non-switched, non-Gigaplane) hardware such as SPARC CPUs, Sbus, Mbus, etc.

Rodrigo's previous comment about Solaris not being the best version of
Unix, well it really depends on what you are used to and what your biasses
are.  I have managed over a dozen different varieties of Unix and I would
rate Solaris as overall one of the best.  Certainly much less eccentric
than AIX, HP-UX or whatever Compaq calls its Alpha OS now.

Solaris has some weaknesses.  Disaster recovery is better on AIX; Solaris
does not yet supply a journalled filesystem by default (JFS or Vxfs); the
Solaris printing system is crap; the default disk management software
(Disksuite) has some performance issues (especially RAID 5); and Sun's
insistance on using NIS+ for everything is annoying.

Overall, I rate Solaris at about 7.5 out of 10.  (I rate AIX at about 6.0
and HP/UX at about 6.5.)



m.




Rodrigo Gazzaneo <rodrigo_gazzaneo AT HOTMAIL DOT COM> on 30/09/99 00:39:19

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>


To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
cc:    (bcc: MICHAEL LIGHTFOOT/NSO/CSDA)
Subject:  Re: Solaris 7




Talking about architecture (Gigaplane and stuff). Not about CPUs.

regards,
Rodrigo


>From: "Remeta, Mark" <MRemeta AT SeligmanData DOT com>
>To: "'rodrigo_gazzaneo AT hotmail DOT com'" <rodrigo_gazzaneo AT hotmail DOT 
>com>
>Subject: RE: Solaris 7
>Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:27:58 -0400
>
>Sun got there hardware from Cray????
>Since when, that's news to me...
>Sun uses Sparc CPU's still, don't they.
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rodrigo Gazzaneo [mailto:rodrigo_gazzaneo AT HOTMAIL DOT COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 10:23 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: Solaris 7
>
>
>Hi,
>
>Sun has very good hardware (got it from Cray!), but Solaris is not the
best
>Unix on the market (according to D.H. Brown).
>
>As for Veritas Netbackup, I once saw some benchmarks against ADSM. Both
>were
>running on the same platform, Ultra 10000 with high performance tapes.
>Backup time was almost as good for both the solutions. ADSM restore was 3
>times faster the the other4s.
>
>Has anyone seen this document ? I saw it last year, around november.
>
>best regards,
>Rodrigo
>
>
>
> >From: Mac <mac.macdonell AT TWCABLE DOT COM>
> >Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> >To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >Subject: Solaris 7
> >Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:24:58 -0600
> >
> >We currently run ADSM server v3r1 on an MVS platform and are in the
> >process of deciding whether to use ADSM when we migrate our backup
> >server to a Sun Solaris platform. Has anyone experienced any problems
> >with ADSM server on a Sun Solris platform ? ADSM worked just fine on the
> >MVS platform, so we would like some input about it on the Sun platform.
> >Also, any comments on Veritas Netbackup compared to ADSM as a backup
> >server on the Sun Solaris platform ?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Mac
> >--
> >Mac Macdonell
> >Network Analyst - MIS
> >Time Warner Cable
> >mac.macdonell AT twcable DOT com
> >303-799-5795
>
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