Comment Sun: please stop the Java madness! (Score 3, Interesting) 833
I use and admin Solaris systems every day, at work and at home, and in itself it's a great product. But its biggest problem is Java. More and more stuff is being java-ised, resulting in absolutely horrid performance.
Examples: the SunScreen 3.2 commandline. Takes ages to load or do anything, especially viewing your firewall logs. Sun Managment Center: It does not perform. It becomes completely laughable when you try to display the screen on another Xserver. This is how Sun was demo-ing it at Lisa2001, and although the lead developers over there agreed that it didn't perform, they blamed this on Swing but had this scary religious fervor when it came to doing things in Java.
The new patch-managment tools from Sun? Nice idea, very flawed implementation. Sloooooow, and so buggy that we ditched it, prefering to keep our Suns up to date by hand.
Java installers are another fun item. Sun has a very nice packaging system, which makes it possible to jumpstart machines with identical software configurations etc. But more and more software becomes 'java installed'. It does not add any functionality apart from a badly drawn gui, but it breaks all the convenience of having one standard packaging tool for the os.
Please stop this madness.
Examples: the SunScreen 3.2 commandline. Takes ages to load or do anything, especially viewing your firewall logs. Sun Managment Center: It does not perform. It becomes completely laughable when you try to display the screen on another Xserver. This is how Sun was demo-ing it at Lisa2001, and although the lead developers over there agreed that it didn't perform, they blamed this on Swing but had this scary religious fervor when it came to doing things in Java.
The new patch-managment tools from Sun? Nice idea, very flawed implementation. Sloooooow, and so buggy that we ditched it, prefering to keep our Suns up to date by hand.
Java installers are another fun item. Sun has a very nice packaging system, which makes it possible to jumpstart machines with identical software configurations etc. But more and more software becomes 'java installed'. It does not add any functionality apart from a badly drawn gui, but it breaks all the convenience of having one standard packaging tool for the os.
Please stop this madness.
