Linux vs Sun: was Blockchain

On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 16:21:12 +0000
Karen Shaeffer <shaeffer-IwRZ8fqS3AoztatW0fm/[email protected]> wrote:

> During the emergence of the dot-com bust, I was doing linux systems
> engineering work at startups. One of my routine tasks was performance
> analysis comparing the performance of application stacks running on
> intel-linux versus sun-solaris. In a price-performance comparison,
> linux-intel was an order of magnitude more competitive than
> sun-solaris was in the context of comparable hardware scale. Sure,
> sun-solaris was an awesome example of highly optimized hw-OS at
> scale. And at scale this meant huge extremely expensive sun systems.
> But the market had turned to using low-end, COTS linux-intel systems
> in server farms. And Sun's low end solaris systems were not highly
> optimized. Quite the opposite. These low end intel-linux HW-OS
> systems were so much more cost effective than sun's solution it was a
> no brainer for companies to adopt intel COTS hw running linux. And
> this led to the fall of Sun Microsystems IMHO.

All the preceding, and in addition GNU/Linux on commodity hardware
enabled almost anybody to get into the game.
 
SteveT

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