I worked for Sun for 4 years during the Java boom. And during
that time, if you wanted good server software, Solaris was your
ticket. IBM, yeah, Linux, yeah, but really, Solaris was tip top.
But that was a year and a half ago. Now, I’m working on a
stealth mode project for a client in Silicon Valley and am
looking at a whole lotta software as part of the operation. Some
of it is cutting edge stuff, some isn’t. The thing is that it
all sucks on Solaris. Bugs, crashes, you name it, it’s
happening. And it’s obvious that the vendors of this software
(big names most of them–the stuff that you may be using) have
spent zero time qualifying the entire package on Solaris.
Furthermore, one vendor’s download site is even set up so that
you can’t download the Solaris software package using the
default Netscape browser that comes with Solaris 8. How stupid
is that?  The really bad thing is that its all working a hell of
a lot better on Windows. It’s really sad. This means that even
though Solaris is a better server OS th