I'm no more nuts than you. Solaris runs quite nicely on X86, thank you.
Solaris desktop is about $400. NT workstation is about $300. Upgrades are cheaper. I'd rather have Solaris (actually, I already have both, but if I could only have one or the other, it would be Solaris). The price difference of about $100 isn't nearly the $20,000 vs $99 in your original posting. On the server side, the balance tips in favor of Solaris. NT is going for about $750 (5 clients), and I already told you I paid about $700 for Solaris (unlimited clients).
First you complain Sun doesn't have support online, then you complain they have too much? FYI, there's one patch you can download which contains the recommended individual patches.
If MSFT's software weren't so full of holes, you wouldn't have to deal with them on a daily basis.
Yes, FWIW I also recently bought a Sun workstation. I haven't used it much yet, but my initial impression is that it operates much more smoothly than the Pentium Pro I'm sitting at.
JMHO. |
