[joncp]

> customers so inept that...

I used to think like that until I got to see some legacy systems in action. Sometimes it just makes financial sense to keep paying Larry and avoid a big rewrite.

[dijit]

This, and also Solaris was years ahead in some areas. Hopefully linux will overtake it completely before 2037.

[jeffbee]

Solaris may have had a handful of helpful features but even by the late 1990s it was obviously inferior in numerous ways to Linux and BSDs. One of the most obvious manifestations of how slow it was was the overwhelming latency of fork, orders of magnitude slower than its free competitors and the reason its ecosystem needed hacked up threads libraries. The system was sprinkled with surprise complexity traps that could kill you in production, including the fact that its TCP receive path was O(N) in the number of IP addresses associated with a given network interface, meaning if you tried to hang an entire subnet off 1 port the system would effectively hang. In 1998 the people I worked with could not run away from Sun quickly enough. As soon as we could port anything to FreeBSD, we did. The writing was on the wall even then.

[josephcsible]

Are there any such advantages that you can't get with illumos?

[chasil]

I wonder if bcachefs can do it.

[robotnikman]

Yep, same reason why a lot of businesses also still run AS/400