Solaris was worse than Linux, and SPARC was worse than Intel. A lot worse.
Even ZFS was way better integrated with the Linux kernel even while Solaris was supposedly maintained.
Even ZFS was way better integrated with the Linux kernel even while Solaris was supposedly maintained.
All development and production deployments was being done across Solaris, Aix and HP-UX in regards to UNIX flavours.
Afterwards Nokia Networks were still deploying into HP-UX, and the first big Linux project started around late 2005, to Red-Hat.
Around 1998-2000 my dad made a little business out of setting up linux servers on commodity hardware in my hometown. Primitive social networks, LAN provider servers, mail servers all worked just fine. Not without some involved convincing, and tinkering, and kernel patching but they did work.
One or two of the companies later became regional champions, running 100s of linux/x86/dell machines.
None of them would be able to afford a proper Sun server. Sun would never bother itself with these original tiny contracts.
It dont think Sun even stood a chance in this game. They couldnt even realize this happening!
Of course, after that, Solaris just kept running in very expensive circles while linux went on to make steady progress.
By the early 2000's, 1) Linux was solid, why bother with Solaris? 2) ebay and other channels were flooded with used Sun hardware from failed dot-com companies anyway. No need to buy new.
I had to survive with 800x600 on a 1024x768 monitor for quite some time.