Oh Matt, part of me feels like I should just let you close the argument and have the final word as another part of me knows your going to post egocentric rhetoric to anythjing posted here. However, you seem well practiced at trolling, you even evoke an emotion, it's even possible your insults deserve a response!

There are plenty of technical points made in previous AC posts & please be assured there are plenty of "sunshiners" out there who have a very good understanding of IT equipment. You seem to get confused periodically as to how many of us there actually are.

There you go matt, two leads for your next sales pitch, tell us again how stupid and overpaid Solaris admins are and lead in again with how good HP's IT equipment is....

I'm not surpised by your pompous statements with regards to why you have so much time to waste here. Of course, it's those amazing HP tools and systems, you just turn them on and they manage themselves!! Tell us about them again! What discount can you offer us to migrate to them? ( and yes, before you spout crap about self managing go read about Solaris Fault Management and self healing, awaiting an insult on that technology as well)

Carrying on, how on earth your guessing the size & the history of our data center over a forum amazes me? Are psychic skills on your CV as well as official FUD distribution experience? FYI, we're mixed, from windows to vms, Linux to HPUX to Solaris and have hardware from virtually every vendor yet every system seems to have it's place. We have an fellow here who's a bit like you, only one shoe fits as long as it has the HP logo on it, you two would get on like a house on fire. Naturally you'd agree that was down to your long term vision and belief in HP strategies Matt, tell us about them again, I reckon you can get at least 8 lines out of that!

One direction forwards and thats towards HP!!

WTF are you on about regarding Linux instability? We lose paths to devices over reboots, to me a sign of an immature OS and your counter is that Enterprise Application support has been there for years? There two totally different subject but ta for the insults, I take it you don't use Linux very much if your not seeing these things? Forums suggest it's reasonably common even if little explanation is offered out there. Vendors will support their apps where-ever they can possibly sell the apps & linux has a good market share (come on Matt, more bait there for your next post...)

With regards to the Solaris OS in a Storage Appliance, honestly Matt we're both guessing. My bet says Sun will lock people out of the OS (so idiots don't stick extra services onto an OS meant to be running storage services only) I very much doubt the average windows guy will get in but I'm sure passwd's will circulate in the usual places and people can get in if they really want to.

(come on matt, people getting in, there has to be a link as to how secure HP products are...)

Apologies for the arse bandit, thats just an idication of how annoying I find you, I think if your skin were a little thinner you'd see the annoyance in many people posts but perversely you seem to enjoy annoying people. Every post these days seems to have some Sun directed insult in it, (like your previous one where you labelled the majority of Sun contacts as people who you should not trust, stating they are liars)

You might watch it for the lawers Mr Bryant, there's a point where a Coporation might take offence. I'm may direct insult (as do you) but it's aimed at a posting alias psuedonym where we don't even know which country you live in. Probably the states judging by the posting times.

Your actually aiming at a genuine real-life company brimming with lawyers! Care to substantiate that sentiment in court? I very much doubt any sane person would.

As they say, wake up and smell the coffee, no-one here is rigourously bashing HP and your the only one rigourously bashing Sun.

Come on Mr Kettle, lets see if we can leave it now or do you want the final say? Do I get it or you?