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by pjmlp 864 days ago
By 2006, Nokia was still mostly a HP-UX and Solaris shop on the networking side, and CERN still had quite a few Solaris boxes, with Scientific Linux project alongside Fermilabs slowly taking off in 2003.

Not everyone was racing to jump out of UNIX proper during the late-1990's.
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jeffbee 864 days ago
The article specifically discusses Solaris as a gleaming success for web startups in the 1990s. I am here to tell you that as a member of that scene, I would have burned Solaris at the stake if it had a suitable physical manifestation.
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pjmlp 864 days ago
And I am here to say, I had more fun with Solaris during dotcom wave that ever had, or will, with GNU/Linux.

Same applies to a couple of big UNIX names, with a proper integrated experience.

Pity about that Google Android torpedo.

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