Perhaps this clown would be interested to see how company name removed is no longer purchasing any Sun hardware. Everything coming in is now a Dell box running Red Hat Enterprise. I have migrated our entire Smalltalk system off our 24-processor Solaris box onto four RH boxes, and I had to remove some of my parallel calculation engines, because they were running too fast and causing too many accounts to sit around in "pending" state waiting for the C program (still running on the Solaris box, because the C guys can't get it to run on the RH box without crashing) to pick them up.
My users have all moved their UIs off Solaris and onto RH. I have provided two startup icons for everyone's Windows box, one to start on Solaris and one to start on RH. The RH is so dramatically faster that NOBODY still runs the Solaris script. Too bad about it not being safer, more robust, higher quality, and dramatically less expensive. Gawd, how in hell can this guy say "dramatically less expensive" with a straight face? It's amazing. Are you sure this guy's last job wasn't at the Iraq information ministry?
While I can't id the company, it's not a small shop with three people - it's a major Fortune 100 firm, running business critical applications on Linux (with VisualWorks!). I think Schwartz needs a quick reality check....
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