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| KSkelton |
 Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:16 am Post subject: Brokers: Windows 2000 vs. Solaris 9 |
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Here's a question that may not have an answer but...
I have the choice of deploying my new QA and Prod 5.x brokers on either Windows 2000 or Solaris 9. Both are 2 cpu machines.
Is there still any advantage to running on Solaris vs. Windows?
How stable has 5.x been on these two platforms?
Windows seems a bit easier since I already have the test broker running on the Windows 2000 Configuration Manager server (not to mention that I do not have root access on Solaris).
Any input is appreciated.
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| Michael Dag |
| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:16 am Post subject: |
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tough call... both platforms have their quirks
can you elaborate on the requirements with regard to stability, failover, throughput, etc.
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| PeterPotkay |
| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:31 pm Post subject: Re: Brokers: Windows 2000 vs. Solaris 9 |
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| KSkelton wrote: |
Is there still any advantage to running on Solaris vs. Windows?
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Microsoft wants you to reboot your servers once or twice a month to apply their security patches. So right off the bat plan on regular outages to this box forever.
How bad is Solaris in this regard?
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| Michael Dag |
| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:20 am Post subject: Re: Brokers: Windows 2000 vs. Solaris 9 |
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Jedi Knight
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| PeterPotkay wrote: |
| How bad is Solaris in this regard? |
Well you don't get the monthly microsoft patches 
Having some form of regular maintenance or service windows is good for any platform.
I have worked with brokers on Windows, Solaris and AIX, I never found time to get the broker running on Linux but from what I heard it screams on Linux. On one side it should not matter where you put the broker on the other side it's good to have a good comfort level with the platform.
so as usual it depends all on the requirements and the environment and there is no one size fits all answer.
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| PGoodhart |
| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:00 am Post subject: |
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From what I have heard, you might end up converting Solaris to Linux in the short term anyway. I understand Sun is considering whether to continue with Solaris or go into Linux in a big way. (Also heard they may open source Solaris...)
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| psn |
| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:10 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
My idea is that windows is not a server System . You have to reboot against memory leaks !
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