RE: Why would I even look at Sun any more?

Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 8th September 2009 01:24 GMT, "The phenomenal speed of Nehalem chipsets from Intel together with cloud computing technologies for parallel scaling makes Unix from Sun/IBM/HP obsolete... yes, I know Solaris is a fine operating system, but I cannot justify $500K of Unix gear any more when the equivalent in X86-64 costs a tenth of that amount."

The MPP processing under Nehalem is certainly not equivalent to SMP under SPARC.

If this was the real argument, then you would be moving to OpenSolaris on Intel or AMD with:

- Unified 128 Bit ZFS File System & Volume Manager

- Robust System Virtualization with Solaris Containers with virtually no overhead

- DTrace for Development Optimization & Production Debugging

- Unified kernel level CIFS & NFS architecture

- Virtualized Network Architecture with

- Unified Services Architecture

Solaris on Intel/Amd - greater functionality at less the cost than alternative operating systems.