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There was a time, so I'm told by Oracle DBAs, that Oracle was developed on Solaris first, then ported to other platforms. So, Solaris had the best support, and least problems. Bugs were fixed there first. To quote, "If you're going to run Oracle, you might as well run it on Solaris"

I guess that is not the case any more.

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This comment is probably more about Oracle than about Solaris as such. IIRC, there was also a time when Oracle partnered with HP and a joint selling point was that Oracle ran fastest on HP-UX. I can't seem to find a link for this. Later, there was also a bitter fight and a lawsuit between the two companies on Oracle dropping support for Itanium based machines from HP. [1]

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/hp-aw...

> least problems.

I guess if oracle wants those support contracts, they can't have an operating system that doesn't need it!

I've always thought Oracle's primary goal was to keep Oracle engineers in employment.

Oracles primary goal for the last two decades seems to be the finance of racing sailboats.

So, Ferrari, then.

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