Comment Oracle/Java on FreeBSD (Score 3) 43
As someone who has worked with Linux, NT4, Win2K and FreeBSD in (yes) mission critical datacenter environments, I would say that FreeBSD is my pick (Solaris being ruled out on cost).
Lately though, we have been forced to adopt Linux simply because the latest Oracle & Java 1.3 environments are unavailable on FreeBSD. At the end of the day, an OS is as good as the applications it supports. DNS, qmail, Apache rocks on FreeBSD. But where are Oracle and Java App Servers...and where is SMP?
I don't think the BSDs will die, they will just be relegated to a class of specialized OSes as Linux continues to improve and consolidate it's position as the mainstream Server OS on the X86 platform.
Lately though, we have been forced to adopt Linux simply because the latest Oracle & Java 1.3 environments are unavailable on FreeBSD. At the end of the day, an OS is as good as the applications it supports. DNS, qmail, Apache rocks on FreeBSD. But where are Oracle and Java App Servers...and where is SMP?
I don't think the BSDs will die, they will just be relegated to a class of specialized OSes as Linux continues to improve and consolidate it's position as the mainstream Server OS on the X86 platform.
