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0 pointstinco2y ago0 comments

This true for other hypervisors too. Enterprises are still paying hundreds of millions to VMware, who knows what's going on in there?

I wouldn't have picked Opensolaris, but it's a lot better than other vendors that are either fully closed source, or thin proprietary wrappers over Linux with spotty coverage and you're not allowed to touch the underlying OS for risk of disrupting the managed product.

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sgt2y ago

What's more important is that the team actually knows Illumos/Solaris inside out. You can work wonders with a less than ideal system. That said, Illumos is of high quality in my opinion.

Always_Anon2y ago

Seems risky considering how small of a developer pool actively works on illumos/Solaris. The code is most definitely well engineered and correct, but there are huge teams all around the world deploying on huge pools of Linux compute that have contributed back to Linux.

tincoOP2y ago

They had a bug in the database they are using that was due to a Go system library not behaving correctly specifically on illumos. They've got enough engineering power to deal with such a thing but damn..

mbakke2y ago

If everyone had this mindset we would be running our workloads on Microsoft Windows by now.

GNU/Linux was also "risky" at some point.

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