Comments on: What happened to Sun Microsystems https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-sun-microsystems/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-happened-to-sun-microsystems David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:23:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: neo https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-sun-microsystems/#comment-57473 Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:39:33 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36701#comment-57473 is Illumos any good vs. linux?

]]> By: Dale Houston https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-sun-microsystems/#comment-56755 Sun, 02 Feb 2025 16:34:12 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36701#comment-56755 I was a Solaris sysadmin from SunOS 4.1.3 until about 10 years ago. All that stuff is on Linux now, which means cheaper hardware and orders of magnitude package management. Good enough x64 hardware and cheap comparable operating system with wide software support really did Sun in.

The only Solaris boxes I have now are a couple of ZFS appliances, which run Solaris underneath but I don’t ever drop to the command line unless something is very very wrong.

]]> By: neo https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-sun-microsystems/#comment-56750 Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:44:55 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36701#comment-56750 What happened to Be OS?

could linux replacing Be OS?

]]> By: CubicleNate https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-sun-microsystems/#comment-56749 Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:08:53 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36701#comment-56749 Around the 2002 time-frame when I was entering the work force with a “real” job. We used HP Unix and Sun systems for all the serious work but things like email and admin tasks were largely performed on Windows machines. This slowly shifted over the years I was there. By the time I left, my workstation was no longer HP Unix with the beautiful CDE workspace.

Just a thought, tho, Sun’s lasting benefits are still felt today. Network File System (NFS) is something that I use all the time, Java, love it or hate it is still widely used and developed. I do wish they were still a thing as more players in the tech space, the better. I am not a fan of the monoliths.

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